AZMEX POLICY 31 OCT 2018
Comment: So, our military can protect any border but ours? Time to fix or terminate that "Posse Comitatus Act".
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US troops deployed at the border limited in what they can do
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | OCTOBER 30, 2018 AT 4:31 PM
UPDATED: OCTOBER 31, 2018 AT 8:46 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2284008/us-troops-deployed-at-the-border-limited-in-what-they-can-do/
FILE - Arizona's Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, front right, meets with Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to their deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation on Monday, April 9, 2018, in Phoenix. Ducey told the group of soldiers preparing to deploy from the Phoenix military base that their "mission is about providing manpower and resources" to support agencies on the border and denied that there was a political motive. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
PHOENIX (AP) — The more than 5,200 active-duty troops being sent by President Donald Trump to the U.S.-Mexico border will be limited in what they can do under a federal law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on American soil.
That means the troops will not be allowed to detain immigrants, seize drugs from smugglers or have any direct involvement in stopping a migrant caravan that is still about 1,000 miles from the nearest border crossing.
Instead, their role will largely mirror that of the existing National Guard troops — about 2,000 in all — deployed to the border over the past six months, including providing helicopter support for border missions, installing concrete barriers and repairing and maintaining vehicles. The new troops will include military police, combat engineers and helicopter companies equipped with advanced technology to help detect people at night.
The extraordinary military operation comes a week before the Nov. 6 midterm elections as Trump has sought to transform fears about the caravan and immigration into electoral gains. On Tuesday, he stepped up his dire warnings, calling the band of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America an "invasion."
"Our Military is waiting for you!" he tweeted.
R. Gil Kerlikowske, Customs and Border Protection commissioner from 2014 to 2017, said the military cannot stop asylum seekers who show up at border crossings to seek protection, and that Border Patrol agents have had no trouble apprehending people who cross illegally.
"I see it as a political stunt and a waste of military resources and waste of tax dollars," said Kerlikowske, who was at the helm during a major surge of Central Americans migrants in 2014. "To use active-duty military and put them in that role, I think is a huge mistake. I see it as nothing more than pandering to the midterm elections by the president."
Traveling mostly on foot, the caravan of some 4,000 migrants and a much smaller group of hundreds more are still weeks, if not months, before reaching the U.S. border. Thousands have already dropped out, applying for refugee status in Mexico or taking the Mexican government up on free bus rides back home, and the group is likely to dwindle even more during the arduous journey ahead.
Another smaller caravan earlier this year numbered only a couple hundred by the time it arrived at the Tijuana-San Diego crossing.
And despite the heightened rhetoric, the number of immigrants apprehended at the border is dramatically lower than past years. Border Patrol agents this year made only a quarter of the arrests they made in 2000 at the height of illegal immigration, when the agency had half of the staffing it does today. The demographics have also drastically changed, from mostly Mexican men traveling alone, to Central American families with children.
Migrants arriving at the border will now see a sizable U.S. military presence — more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group — even though their mission will be largely a support role.
That's because the military is bound by the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th- century federal law that restricts participation in law enforcement activities. Unless Congress specifically authorizes it, military personnel can't have direct contact with civilians, including immigrants, said Scott R. Anderson of The Brookings Institution.
Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, head of U.S. Northern Command, said Tuesday that at least 5,239 troops were being sent to the Southwest border as the Pentagon works to meet requests from the Department of Homeland Security.
"The 5,239 are going forward and there will be additional forces over and above the 5,239," he said, adding that number "is not the top line."
Asked about the use of weapons, O'Shaughnessy said the active-duty troops have been given clear guidance on the use of force and there will be unit and individual training to make sure they know what they can and can't do. Generally, U.S. troops are authorized to use force in self-defense.
Still, the large troop deployment will be limited to performing similar support functions as the National Guard troops Trump has already sent to the border.
These include 1,500 flight hours logged by about 600 National Guard troops in Arizona since they were deployed this spring. Members of the guard have also repaired more than 1,000 Border Patrol vehicles and completed 1,000 hours of supply and inventory, according to Customs and Border Protection.
In one case, a group of Border Patrol agents tracking drug smugglers in the remote Arizona desert in August called on a National Guard helicopter to keep an eye on the suspects and guide agents on the ground until they had them in custody. That operation resulted in several arrests and the seizure of 465 pounds of marijuana.
O'Shaughnessy said there were about 1,000 troops already in Texas and that will grow to at least 1,800, likely by Wednesday. The deployments to Arizona and California will follow. All are going to staging bases in the states, and there are none at the border yet, he said.
It remains unclear why the administration was choosing to send active-duty troops given that they will be limited to performing the support functions the Guard already is doing.
The California National Guard has pledged up to 400 troops to the president's border mission through March 31. Jerry Brown, the only Democratic governor in the four states bordering Mexico and a frequent Trump critic, conditioned his support on the troops having nothing to do with immigration enforcement or building border barriers.
Brown said the California troops would help fight transnational criminal gangs and drug and firearms smugglers.
In New Mexico, 118 Guard troops have been helping with vehicle maintenance and repair, cargo inspection operations, surveillance and communications.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pledged 400 troops to the border in April. Maj. Gen. John Nichols, the head of the Texas National Guard, told Congress in July that his troops served in a "variety of support roles," including driving vehicles, security monitoring, and administration.
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Associated Press writers Lolita Baldor, Robert Burns, Colleen Long and Jill Colvin in Washington; Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque; Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Nomaan Merchant in Houston contributed to this report.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 29-10-18
AZMEX UPDATE 29 OCT 2018
Accumulate in Tijuana in October 184 violent deaths
Statistics of the PGJE indicate that October accumulates 184 violent deaths in Tijuana,
with which it reaches 2 thousand 62 so far this year.
https://www.frontera.info/Policiaca/2018/10/29/1383795-Acumula-Tijuana-en-octubre-184-muertes-violentas.html
By: Ángel F. González | 10/29/2018 8:19
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
Three men were killed on public roads yesterday morning in different parts of the city.
At 6:23 am, inhabitants of Ulim Street, on the corner of Huitzol, in the Emperors neighborhood, reported the presence of two unconscious men on public roads.
When they arrived at the place, they checked both people and confirmed that they showed traces of violence, so the assistance of Red Cross staff was necessary.
The paramedics attended to both victims, however, they did not show vital signs and they were declared lifeless in the place.
In another incident, at 08:35 hours, a male corpse was found with bruises on Calle Valle del Rene, in the Los Valles subdivision.
The body was abandoned in the area of a hill and, until yesterday, the victim had not been identified.
Two calcined
Two burned corpses were located in different colonies of Tijuana during the morning.
At 5:47 am, expert elements of the Attorney General's Office of the State (PGJE) arrived at the National Street, in the El Pípila neighborhood, where a burnt bundle was found.
Upon reviewing the finding, they verified that it was a corpse, behind the Temazcali school, from which it was not possible to define the genre because of the state of calcination in which it was found.
In the private Maracuyá, in Colonia Villa del Campo Secunda Section, a second burned body was located on public roads at 7:55.
The investigations were in charge of the unit of Homicides of the Ministerial Police, without reporting arrested persons.
Statistics of the PGJE indicate that October accumulates 184 violent deaths in Tijuana,
with which it reaches 2 thousand 62 (2,062 ) so far this year.
End
And, closer to home, in Nogales, the number of homicides rapidly increasing over the past few weeks.
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They find two men without life and four more injured
Details Published on Monday, October 29, 2018,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=120199
Nogales, Son
With the discovery of two people killed and four more tied and injured with signs of torture, Nogales began a new phase of violence, in events reported in different sectors of the city in the last 24 hours.
According to the reports of the Municipal Police the most recent case was documented minutes after 05:00 in the morning when neighbors of the colony Heroes reported to the emergency number 911 the presence of two people who were thrown on the avenue Circunvalación Heroes.
The place was attended by public security and Red Cross rescuers, who when arriving at the site only located the body of a person tied by hands that at first sight presented multiple blows and signs of torture of approximately 35 to 40 years of age.
Witnesses told the officers that those aboard vans arrived at the public parking lot and threw two subjects, one of whom managed to get up and leave the place, despite appearing to be quite injured.
While the person who was in the place was helped by lifeguards who diagnosed him without vital signs, presenting injuries and marks of having been tortured.
In another case, hours before around 19:10 on Sunday afternoon, municipal agents went to the Loma Escondida street in the Lomas del Sol subdivision, where they received a foul smell that came from inside a house that had a semi-open door. and the interior light on.
Once in the place the agents when entering to review located in one of the rooms the body in a state of decomposition of a male person who showed signs of violence.
He wore blue denim trousers and a white shirt, his hands were tied back as well as his feet, so the place was cordoned off.
In both places elements of the Ministerial Agency of Criminal Investigation carried out in coordination with personnel of the Medical Forensic Service the corresponding works of law, ordering the personnel of the FGJE the lifting of the bodies.
Extra official data indicate that during this weekend, at least four people were located in the streets tied hand and foot, which presented injuries by blows and were transferred to the General Hospital, most of them with buttock injuries, thorax , face, arms and back.
None of the victims lodged a complaint against those responsible for their injuries, claiming that they don't know the identity of their attackers
End
They find nearly half a ton of drugs in the Hidalgo neighborhood of Mexicali; there are two detainees
Photo: Courtesy
By: Drafting / GH | 10/29/2018 5:22 PM
https://www.lacronica.com/Policiaca/2018/10/29/1383906-Decomisan-casi-media-tonelada-de-droga-en-la-colonia-Hidalgo-de-Mexicali-hay-dos-detenidos. html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
As a result of an operation carried out by agents of the State Preventive Police (PEP) in the Hidalgo colony, two individuals were detained in possession of almost half a ton of marijuana, more than 5 kilos of "crystal" and 790 grams of heroin.
Based on intelligence work and information analysis the elements followed the track to the cargo which apparently was in that colony, so they moved to that area.
It was while making a surveillance tour on the street Hacienda Corralejo between avenues 54 and 55 where the agents observed two people standing next to two vehicles, one of them making an inspection with the trunk open.
They noticed that the Toyota Corolla and Acura vehicles fully coincided with the characteristics they had in the investigation, so they descended and intervened to the suspects.
The subjects identified themselves as Rafael Armando "N", 40 years old, and Jesús Alfredo "N", 21 years old, both from Culiacán, Sinaloa, who showed a marked nervousness for which the elements proceeded to perform a corporal revision without find on them something illegal.
By protocol they checked the trunks of the vehicles locating the following:
· 427 kilos of marijuana
· 5,920 kilos of "crystal"
· 790 grams of heroin
They were immediately secured and placed at the disposal of the corresponding authorities who will be responsible for determining their legal status.
FINISH
Accumulate in Tijuana in October 184 violent deaths
Statistics of the PGJE indicate that October accumulates 184 violent deaths in Tijuana,
with which it reaches 2 thousand 62 so far this year.
https://www.frontera.info/Policiaca/2018/10/29/1383795-Acumula-Tijuana-en-octubre-184-muertes-violentas.html
By: Ángel F. González | 10/29/2018 8:19
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
Three men were killed on public roads yesterday morning in different parts of the city.
At 6:23 am, inhabitants of Ulim Street, on the corner of Huitzol, in the Emperors neighborhood, reported the presence of two unconscious men on public roads.
When they arrived at the place, they checked both people and confirmed that they showed traces of violence, so the assistance of Red Cross staff was necessary.
The paramedics attended to both victims, however, they did not show vital signs and they were declared lifeless in the place.
In another incident, at 08:35 hours, a male corpse was found with bruises on Calle Valle del Rene, in the Los Valles subdivision.
The body was abandoned in the area of a hill and, until yesterday, the victim had not been identified.
Two calcined
Two burned corpses were located in different colonies of Tijuana during the morning.
At 5:47 am, expert elements of the Attorney General's Office of the State (PGJE) arrived at the National Street, in the El Pípila neighborhood, where a burnt bundle was found.
Upon reviewing the finding, they verified that it was a corpse, behind the Temazcali school, from which it was not possible to define the genre because of the state of calcination in which it was found.
In the private Maracuyá, in Colonia Villa del Campo Secunda Section, a second burned body was located on public roads at 7:55.
The investigations were in charge of the unit of Homicides of the Ministerial Police, without reporting arrested persons.
Statistics of the PGJE indicate that October accumulates 184 violent deaths in Tijuana,
with which it reaches 2 thousand 62 (2,062 ) so far this year.
End
And, closer to home, in Nogales, the number of homicides rapidly increasing over the past few weeks.
Thx
They find two men without life and four more injured
Details Published on Monday, October 29, 2018,
Written by César Barragán / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=120199
Nogales, Son
With the discovery of two people killed and four more tied and injured with signs of torture, Nogales began a new phase of violence, in events reported in different sectors of the city in the last 24 hours.
According to the reports of the Municipal Police the most recent case was documented minutes after 05:00 in the morning when neighbors of the colony Heroes reported to the emergency number 911 the presence of two people who were thrown on the avenue Circunvalación Heroes.
The place was attended by public security and Red Cross rescuers, who when arriving at the site only located the body of a person tied by hands that at first sight presented multiple blows and signs of torture of approximately 35 to 40 years of age.
Witnesses told the officers that those aboard vans arrived at the public parking lot and threw two subjects, one of whom managed to get up and leave the place, despite appearing to be quite injured.
While the person who was in the place was helped by lifeguards who diagnosed him without vital signs, presenting injuries and marks of having been tortured.
In another case, hours before around 19:10 on Sunday afternoon, municipal agents went to the Loma Escondida street in the Lomas del Sol subdivision, where they received a foul smell that came from inside a house that had a semi-open door. and the interior light on.
Once in the place the agents when entering to review located in one of the rooms the body in a state of decomposition of a male person who showed signs of violence.
He wore blue denim trousers and a white shirt, his hands were tied back as well as his feet, so the place was cordoned off.
In both places elements of the Ministerial Agency of Criminal Investigation carried out in coordination with personnel of the Medical Forensic Service the corresponding works of law, ordering the personnel of the FGJE the lifting of the bodies.
Extra official data indicate that during this weekend, at least four people were located in the streets tied hand and foot, which presented injuries by blows and were transferred to the General Hospital, most of them with buttock injuries, thorax , face, arms and back.
None of the victims lodged a complaint against those responsible for their injuries, claiming that they don't know the identity of their attackers
End
They find nearly half a ton of drugs in the Hidalgo neighborhood of Mexicali; there are two detainees
Photo: Courtesy
By: Drafting / GH | 10/29/2018 5:22 PM
https://www.lacronica.com/Policiaca/2018/10/29/1383906-Decomisan-casi-media-tonelada-de-droga-en-la-colonia-Hidalgo-de-Mexicali-hay-dos-detenidos. html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
As a result of an operation carried out by agents of the State Preventive Police (PEP) in the Hidalgo colony, two individuals were detained in possession of almost half a ton of marijuana, more than 5 kilos of "crystal" and 790 grams of heroin.
Based on intelligence work and information analysis the elements followed the track to the cargo which apparently was in that colony, so they moved to that area.
It was while making a surveillance tour on the street Hacienda Corralejo between avenues 54 and 55 where the agents observed two people standing next to two vehicles, one of them making an inspection with the trunk open.
They noticed that the Toyota Corolla and Acura vehicles fully coincided with the characteristics they had in the investigation, so they descended and intervened to the suspects.
The subjects identified themselves as Rafael Armando "N", 40 years old, and Jesús Alfredo "N", 21 years old, both from Culiacán, Sinaloa, who showed a marked nervousness for which the elements proceeded to perform a corporal revision without find on them something illegal.
By protocol they checked the trunks of the vehicles locating the following:
· 427 kilos of marijuana
· 5,920 kilos of "crystal"
· 790 grams of heroin
They were immediately secured and placed at the disposal of the corresponding authorities who will be responsible for determining their legal status.
FINISH
AZMEX I3 27-10-18
AZMEX I3 27 OCT 2018
Migrants refuse offer of work and legalization
Details Published on Friday October 26, 2018,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=120131
Mexico City
Members of the migrant caravan go ahead and go to Mexico City to try to dialogue with President Enrique Peña Nieto and President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, so they will continue with their trip to reach Tapanatepec, Oaxaca.
This was decided at the Assembly, in the Main Square of Arriaga, by the thousands of Central Americans seeking to reach the United States, and they rejected Peña Nieto's offer to give them official identification, education for their children and temporary employment, as long as they request refuge, do not continue advancing and stay in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
"We do want a paper that lets us go where we want, but it would have to be in Mexico City, to see if they accept it and what the conditions are. So the solution, the decision is to try to dialogue with this government, and with the new one, but in Mexico City, "said Irineo Mujica, a member of the organization People Without Borders.
The activist asked the National Commission for Human Rights, Amnesty International and other civil society organizations to protect the Migrant Caravan on their way to the Mexican capital in order to avoid repression, while holding the National Migration Institute responsible ( INM) of any death that could be recorded in the journey.
"The people of migration are not going to stop the terror against you, listen to me, listen to me, tomorrow we would have to travel together, together and give a message of unity, nobody goes ahead, tomorrow we will use what we always carry in our back, a cross, and from there we will go forward, we will dialogue with the new government and whoever is and let us hope that our faith will take us forward, because our destiny is in their hands, "he said.
With the support of the members of the Migrant Caravan, Irineo Mujica, said that they will request that the application for refuge in Mexico be simplified and that the visa be eliminated for Central Americans who want to enter our country. (Mexico)
END
Don't Forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, (and the USA?) are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
End
Migrants refuse offer of work and legalization
Details Published on Friday October 26, 2018,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=120131
Mexico City
Members of the migrant caravan go ahead and go to Mexico City to try to dialogue with President Enrique Peña Nieto and President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, so they will continue with their trip to reach Tapanatepec, Oaxaca.
This was decided at the Assembly, in the Main Square of Arriaga, by the thousands of Central Americans seeking to reach the United States, and they rejected Peña Nieto's offer to give them official identification, education for their children and temporary employment, as long as they request refuge, do not continue advancing and stay in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
"We do want a paper that lets us go where we want, but it would have to be in Mexico City, to see if they accept it and what the conditions are. So the solution, the decision is to try to dialogue with this government, and with the new one, but in Mexico City, "said Irineo Mujica, a member of the organization People Without Borders.
The activist asked the National Commission for Human Rights, Amnesty International and other civil society organizations to protect the Migrant Caravan on their way to the Mexican capital in order to avoid repression, while holding the National Migration Institute responsible ( INM) of any death that could be recorded in the journey.
"The people of migration are not going to stop the terror against you, listen to me, listen to me, tomorrow we would have to travel together, together and give a message of unity, nobody goes ahead, tomorrow we will use what we always carry in our back, a cross, and from there we will go forward, we will dialogue with the new government and whoever is and let us hope that our faith will take us forward, because our destiny is in their hands, "he said.
With the support of the members of the Migrant Caravan, Irineo Mujica, said that they will request that the application for refuge in Mexico be simplified and that the visa be eliminated for Central Americans who want to enter our country. (Mexico)
END
Don't Forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, (and the USA?) are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
End
Monday, October 29, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 27-10-18
AZMEX POLICY 27 OCT 2018
Comment: Mexico, the next Venezuela. You have been advised.
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Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of López Obrador
The next head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, announced that the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales, will attend the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of Mexico
10/26/2018 6:55 PM ARTURO PÁRAMO
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/nicolas-maduro-y-evo-morales-acudiran-a-toma-de-protesta-de-lopez-obrador/1274424.
Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of López Obrador
Maduro and Morales stand out from the list of leaders announced by Marcelo Ebrard, who will attend the López Obrador inauguration (Photos: Reuters)
MEXICO CITY
Marcelo Ebrard, next Mexican chancellor, today published in his Twitter account the leaders of the world who have confirmed their attendance to the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as president of Mexico, next December 1st.
This Friday, Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, and Evo Morales, of Bolivia, will be added to the list of presidents who will arrive in Mexico.
Confirmed Maduro his attendance to the inauguration of López Obrador
In his messages, the future chancellor announced the visit of the Vice President of the United States, Michael R. Pence,
on behalf of Donald Trump, president of the United States.
He confirmed the attendance of the Latin American presidents
Evo Morales Ayma, of Bolivia;
Nicolás Maduro Moros, from Venezuela;
Iván Duque Márquez, from Colombia;
(Thousands of Venezuelans have fled to Colombia )
Mario Abdo Benítez President of the Republic of Paraguay; and
Lucia Topolansky Vice President of Uruguay
From Central America will attend Epsy Campbell First Vice President of Costa Rica;
Colville Young Governor of Belize; and
Desiré Delano Bouterse President of Suriname.
Ebrard also announced the support of Brahim Ghali, President of the Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic;
Kim Yong Nam President of the Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
So far, Ebrard wrote, it has confirmed the attendance of 15 heads of state to the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador on December 1.
Yesterday, Ebrard published, also on Twitter, the letter sent by Jeremy Corbyn,
leader of the opposition in the United Kingdom, who also confirmed his attendance on December 1.
END
Comment: Mexico, the next Venezuela. You have been advised.
Thx
Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of López Obrador
The next head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, announced that the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales, will attend the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of Mexico
10/26/2018 6:55 PM ARTURO PÁRAMO
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/nicolas-maduro-y-evo-morales-acudiran-a-toma-de-protesta-de-lopez-obrador/1274424.
Nicolás Maduro and Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of López Obrador
Maduro and Morales stand out from the list of leaders announced by Marcelo Ebrard, who will attend the López Obrador inauguration (Photos: Reuters)
MEXICO CITY
Marcelo Ebrard, next Mexican chancellor, today published in his Twitter account the leaders of the world who have confirmed their attendance to the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as president of Mexico, next December 1st.
This Friday, Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, and Evo Morales, of Bolivia, will be added to the list of presidents who will arrive in Mexico.
Confirmed Maduro his attendance to the inauguration of López Obrador
In his messages, the future chancellor announced the visit of the Vice President of the United States, Michael R. Pence,
on behalf of Donald Trump, president of the United States.
He confirmed the attendance of the Latin American presidents
Evo Morales Ayma, of Bolivia;
Nicolás Maduro Moros, from Venezuela;
Iván Duque Márquez, from Colombia;
(Thousands of Venezuelans have fled to Colombia )
Mario Abdo Benítez President of the Republic of Paraguay; and
Lucia Topolansky Vice President of Uruguay
From Central America will attend Epsy Campbell First Vice President of Costa Rica;
Colville Young Governor of Belize; and
Desiré Delano Bouterse President of Suriname.
Ebrard also announced the support of Brahim Ghali, President of the Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic;
Kim Yong Nam President of the Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
So far, Ebrard wrote, it has confirmed the attendance of 15 heads of state to the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador on December 1.
Yesterday, Ebrard published, also on Twitter, the letter sent by Jeremy Corbyn,
leader of the opposition in the United Kingdom, who also confirmed his attendance on December 1.
END
AZMEX I3 29-10-18
AZMEX I3 29 OCT 2018
Note: from the Mexican newspaper Excelsior.
They locate criminal groups in migrant caravan
The owner of the Segob stressed that they have already been identified by name and surname;
They threatened personnel of the National Institute of Migration
10/29/2018 1:27 PM NOTIMEX
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/ubican-grupos-delictivos-en-caravana-migrante/1274834
They locate criminal groups in migrant caravan
He added that through photographs it was detected that some migrants fill bottles with gasoline in order to generate molotov cocktails. Photo: Cuartoscuro
MEXICO
The Secretary of the Interior acknowledged that unfortunately criminal groups have infiltrated the migrant caravan, as confirmed by the Guatemalan government, but they have already been identified by name and surname.
Reported death of member of the Caravan Migrant in Chiapas
"Today in the morning we learned that they approached at nine in the morning, even to threaten personnel of the National Institute of Migration, that if they were not allowed to enter they would take different actions, and that the worst was still to come", indicated .
In a press conference after the presentation of the book Patriotic Symbols, The Flag and the National Coat of Arms, he said that it was also detected, by means of photographs, that people who are part of the caravan "were filling up bottles with gasoline to be able to generate molotov cocktails".
FINISH
Note: from the Mexican newspaper Excelsior.
They locate criminal groups in migrant caravan
The owner of the Segob stressed that they have already been identified by name and surname;
They threatened personnel of the National Institute of Migration
10/29/2018 1:27 PM NOTIMEX
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/ubican-grupos-delictivos-en-caravana-migrante/1274834
They locate criminal groups in migrant caravan
He added that through photographs it was detected that some migrants fill bottles with gasoline in order to generate molotov cocktails. Photo: Cuartoscuro
MEXICO
The Secretary of the Interior acknowledged that unfortunately criminal groups have infiltrated the migrant caravan, as confirmed by the Guatemalan government, but they have already been identified by name and surname.
Reported death of member of the Caravan Migrant in Chiapas
"Today in the morning we learned that they approached at nine in the morning, even to threaten personnel of the National Institute of Migration, that if they were not allowed to enter they would take different actions, and that the worst was still to come", indicated .
In a press conference after the presentation of the book Patriotic Symbols, The Flag and the National Coat of Arms, he said that it was also detected, by means of photographs, that people who are part of the caravan "were filling up bottles with gasoline to be able to generate molotov cocktails".
FINISH
AZMEX I3 28-10-18
AZMEX I3 28 OCT 2018
Migrant caravan regroups to the south of Mexico between attempts to block it
Writing Without Borders
http://www.jornada.com.mx/sin-fronteras/2018/10/28/se-reagrupa-caravana-migrante-al-sur-de-mexico-entre-intentos-por-bloquearla-1822.html
AP continues its march the caravan in Oaxaca.jpg
Photo / AP
Tapanatepec, Mexico, October 28 .- The caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants who heads to the United States put a pause in their march this Sunday, in the Mexican town of Tapanatepec, to regroup after Saturday the rumor of the robbery of a The boy agitated the crowd and mobilized the regional police.
Hundreds of Mexican riot police suspended the blockade they implemented on a bridge on Saturday, allowing the caravan to continue advancing on the United States.
Federal agents concluded the operation after representatives of the National Human Rights Commission told police that a rural stretch of road without shade, toilets or water was not an adequate place for migrants to weigh a government offer of asylum in Mexico, the reason for the police blockade.
The police boarded buses and continued on the road, while the migrants burst into cheers and pledged to continue advancing to the United States despite the fact that US President Donald Trump warned that he will not allow them to enter.
"We had decided in assembly to leave this morning towards Niltepec but decided to rest and reinforce the unity of the migratory movement," said Gina Garibo, of the organization Pueblos Sin Fronteras, which has coordinated this and other caravans.
On Saturday night the rumor that they had stolen a child caused dozens of migrants to run to the door of the church in Tapanatepec, where other people managed to protect the man accused of the fact.
Police from the state of Oaxaca, to which Tapanatepec belongs, took the individual to protect him from the crowd, added Garibo, for whom the episode "was an act of provocation."
"We want to avoid at all costs giving reasons for the police to make an operation" that leads to massive deportation, he added.
"We do not have to fall for the provocation of violence, do not you think that (the rumor of the child's theft) was something sent from outside to make us look bad before the whole world?", Explained the Nicaraguan Alexander Martínez in the assembly held Sunday morning in the Plaza de Tanatepec.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto launched a program on Friday titled "You are at home" that offers medical assistance, education and even temporary work to undocumented Central Americans, but with the condition that they apply for shelter and remain in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
But the members of the caravan -in their great majority Hondurans, although there are other Central Americans- voted the same Friday by show of hands to arrive to Mexico City to ask for an immigration permit that allows them to travel freely through this country, even to reach the border with the United States.
On Saturday morning, the caravan was stopped on the road between Arriaga and Tapanatepec by a fence of the federal police and officials of the National Institute of Migration who were instructed to ensure that the migrants know the details of the president's program.
The human column will resume its journey to the small town of Niltepec at dawn on Monday.
With information of AFP and AP
END
Migrant caravan regroups to the south of Mexico between attempts to block it
Writing Without Borders
http://www.jornada.com.mx/sin-fronteras/2018/10/28/se-reagrupa-caravana-migrante-al-sur-de-mexico-entre-intentos-por-bloquearla-1822.html
AP continues its march the caravan in Oaxaca.jpg
Photo / AP
Tapanatepec, Mexico, October 28 .- The caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants who heads to the United States put a pause in their march this Sunday, in the Mexican town of Tapanatepec, to regroup after Saturday the rumor of the robbery of a The boy agitated the crowd and mobilized the regional police.
Hundreds of Mexican riot police suspended the blockade they implemented on a bridge on Saturday, allowing the caravan to continue advancing on the United States.
Federal agents concluded the operation after representatives of the National Human Rights Commission told police that a rural stretch of road without shade, toilets or water was not an adequate place for migrants to weigh a government offer of asylum in Mexico, the reason for the police blockade.
The police boarded buses and continued on the road, while the migrants burst into cheers and pledged to continue advancing to the United States despite the fact that US President Donald Trump warned that he will not allow them to enter.
"We had decided in assembly to leave this morning towards Niltepec but decided to rest and reinforce the unity of the migratory movement," said Gina Garibo, of the organization Pueblos Sin Fronteras, which has coordinated this and other caravans.
On Saturday night the rumor that they had stolen a child caused dozens of migrants to run to the door of the church in Tapanatepec, where other people managed to protect the man accused of the fact.
Police from the state of Oaxaca, to which Tapanatepec belongs, took the individual to protect him from the crowd, added Garibo, for whom the episode "was an act of provocation."
"We want to avoid at all costs giving reasons for the police to make an operation" that leads to massive deportation, he added.
"We do not have to fall for the provocation of violence, do not you think that (the rumor of the child's theft) was something sent from outside to make us look bad before the whole world?", Explained the Nicaraguan Alexander Martínez in the assembly held Sunday morning in the Plaza de Tanatepec.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto launched a program on Friday titled "You are at home" that offers medical assistance, education and even temporary work to undocumented Central Americans, but with the condition that they apply for shelter and remain in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
But the members of the caravan -in their great majority Hondurans, although there are other Central Americans- voted the same Friday by show of hands to arrive to Mexico City to ask for an immigration permit that allows them to travel freely through this country, even to reach the border with the United States.
On Saturday morning, the caravan was stopped on the road between Arriaga and Tapanatepec by a fence of the federal police and officials of the National Institute of Migration who were instructed to ensure that the migrants know the details of the president's program.
The human column will resume its journey to the small town of Niltepec at dawn on Monday.
With information of AFP and AP
END
Friday, October 26, 2018
AZMEX I3 24-10-18
AZMEX I3 24 OCT 2018
Note: photo & chart at link.
Immigrant apprehensions up in Arizona this year
By RENATA CLÓ, Cronkite News
Oct 24, 2018 Updated 1 hr ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/immigrant-apprehensions-up-in-arizona-this-year/article_79702177-6398-5078-b771-eab783d8a609.html
Immigrant Apprehensions
Customs and Border Protection agents and officers inspect vehicles at port of entry. CBP reported Tuesday that apprehensions of illegal immigrants
on the Southwest border were up sharply in fiscal 2018. (Photo by Josh Denmark/U.S. Customs and Border Protection Work Calexico)
WASHINGTON – The number of people apprehended at the Arizona border jumped more than 50 percent in fiscal 2018 from the year before,
according to numbers released by U.S Customs and Border Protection.
Increases in the Tucson and Yuma sectors outpaced the rate of growth along the rest of the Southwest border over the last year,
where the number of immigrants apprehended or turned away grew just over 25 percent from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018, the agency said.
Even though the total numbers rose from 415,517 to 521,090, that was still only the third-highest level of the past six years,
down from a peak of 569,237 people stopped at the border in 2014.
The report Tuesday comes as the Trump administration is sounding the alarm about a "caravan" of thousands of immigrants
who are heading north through Mexico, fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
In recent days, President Donald Trump has criticized Mexico and other Central American governments for not making enough of an effort to stop the caravan,
threatening to cut off U.S. aid and, at one point, calling for the U.S. military to close the Southwest border.
While the report broke out the number of families and unaccompanied minors from Central America who were stopped over the past two years,
those groups still made up only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands who are stopped in a given year.
+1
Immigrant Apprehensions
In Arizona's two border sectors, the CBP reported apprehending 78,416 people last year, a sharp increase from the 51,504 migrants in 2017.
Yuma saw the sharpest percentage increase in the state, more than doubling from the previous year to reach 26,244 apprehensions in fiscal 2018.
Although Tucson only saw a 34 percent increase, 52,172 migrants it apprehended in fiscal 2018 was second-highest on the Southwest border,
trailing only the Rio Grande, Texas, sector.
Law enforcement officials on the front lines were reluctant to discuss policy, but said something needs to be done to protect their communities.
Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier said he is "very concerned about human trafficking, sex trafficking and that sort of thing."
That was echoed by Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, who said criminal activity at the border regarding drug trafficking, human smuggling and the cartels worries him.
Neither sheriff had seen the CBP report with the latest numbers, but both said they want a "secure border" that is able to deter criminal activity.
To Napier, that can mean "physical barriers where they make sense, technology, human resources."
"It's a blend of all those things because the border is not one thing," Napier said.
"There are places where the board is very mountainous, it's very remote.
There's places where it's very urban, so it's not a one size fits all proposition," he said.
Dannels said that securing the border starts "with laws. It starts with policies, it starts with technology."
END
Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, (and the USA?) are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Note: photo & chart at link.
Immigrant apprehensions up in Arizona this year
By RENATA CLÓ, Cronkite News
Oct 24, 2018 Updated 1 hr ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/immigrant-apprehensions-up-in-arizona-this-year/article_79702177-6398-5078-b771-eab783d8a609.html
Immigrant Apprehensions
Customs and Border Protection agents and officers inspect vehicles at port of entry. CBP reported Tuesday that apprehensions of illegal immigrants
on the Southwest border were up sharply in fiscal 2018. (Photo by Josh Denmark/U.S. Customs and Border Protection Work Calexico)
WASHINGTON – The number of people apprehended at the Arizona border jumped more than 50 percent in fiscal 2018 from the year before,
according to numbers released by U.S Customs and Border Protection.
Increases in the Tucson and Yuma sectors outpaced the rate of growth along the rest of the Southwest border over the last year,
where the number of immigrants apprehended or turned away grew just over 25 percent from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018, the agency said.
Even though the total numbers rose from 415,517 to 521,090, that was still only the third-highest level of the past six years,
down from a peak of 569,237 people stopped at the border in 2014.
The report Tuesday comes as the Trump administration is sounding the alarm about a "caravan" of thousands of immigrants
who are heading north through Mexico, fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
In recent days, President Donald Trump has criticized Mexico and other Central American governments for not making enough of an effort to stop the caravan,
threatening to cut off U.S. aid and, at one point, calling for the U.S. military to close the Southwest border.
While the report broke out the number of families and unaccompanied minors from Central America who were stopped over the past two years,
those groups still made up only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands who are stopped in a given year.
+1
Immigrant Apprehensions
In Arizona's two border sectors, the CBP reported apprehending 78,416 people last year, a sharp increase from the 51,504 migrants in 2017.
Yuma saw the sharpest percentage increase in the state, more than doubling from the previous year to reach 26,244 apprehensions in fiscal 2018.
Although Tucson only saw a 34 percent increase, 52,172 migrants it apprehended in fiscal 2018 was second-highest on the Southwest border,
trailing only the Rio Grande, Texas, sector.
Law enforcement officials on the front lines were reluctant to discuss policy, but said something needs to be done to protect their communities.
Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier said he is "very concerned about human trafficking, sex trafficking and that sort of thing."
That was echoed by Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, who said criminal activity at the border regarding drug trafficking, human smuggling and the cartels worries him.
Neither sheriff had seen the CBP report with the latest numbers, but both said they want a "secure border" that is able to deter criminal activity.
To Napier, that can mean "physical barriers where they make sense, technology, human resources."
"It's a blend of all those things because the border is not one thing," Napier said.
"There are places where the board is very mountainous, it's very remote.
There's places where it's very urban, so it's not a one size fits all proposition," he said.
Dannels said that securing the border starts "with laws. It starts with policies, it starts with technology."
END
Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, (and the USA?) are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
AZMEX SPECIAL 25-10-18
AZMEX SPECIAL 25 OCT 2018
Note: from Sky News in the UK.
Cartel vs Cowboy: The man whose ranch is on smuggling route
by Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent, and Tom Acres, news reporter
https://news.sky.com/story/cartel-vs-cowboy-the-man-whose-ranch-is-on-smuggling-route-11527353.
However impressive your back garden might be, it will undoubtedly pale in comparison to the vast expanse of land owned and enjoyed by Arizonan rancher Jim Chilton.
The fifth-generation cattleman - who would look right at home on a John Wayne film set - has a 50,000 acre plot right on his doorstep, but there are more than cows and rattlesnakes to be found among the terrain.
The ranch is right on the US-Mexico border
Image:
Whenever he takes a ride out in his truck, there is a good chance Jim may catch a sighting of members of a Mexican cartel, smuggling drugs into the US via a border that amounts to nothing more than a flimsy fence.
With a southern drawl right at home in what he insists is still very much the "wild west", the rancher told Sky News his land was home to "one of the busiest crossing points in the area".
This flimsy fence is all that separates the ranch from Mexico
Image:
This flimsy fence is all that separates the ranch from Mexico
Even at the age of 89, Jim is able to shuffle his way into Mexico with about as much effort as it takes to get out of bed, and estimates that up to 4,000 "drug packers" come through each year.
But these days it is not just marijuana being funnelled through - there are also thousands of people being escorted.
Jim showcases just how easy it is to cross between the US and Mexico
Image:
The rancher showcases just how easy it is to cross between the US and Mexico
Migrants from all over the world, desperate to seek out a new life in the US, entrust smugglers with securing them safe passage to the border.
6:16. Video:
Smuggled to America: Human cargo
"You used to get old fashioned coyotes, who would bring people across, get $200 or $300 from them each, and guide them into the US," Mr Chilton recalls.
"Now the cartel has scouts on our mountains and charge about $3,000 for Mexicans wanting to come through, $7,000 to $9,000 for middle (Central) Americans, and $25,000 to $75,000 for Asians."
The girls putting their lives in the hands of a smuggler
Packed onto a pickup truck, desperate teenagers have entrusted a smuggler with securing them safe passage out of their homeland
He continues: "Most of the people coming through that are just looking for work are coming from Guatemala, Honduras and other Central American states.
"We've also had Iraqis come through, people from states in the Middle East, but most of the arrests made by the border patrol are from Guatemala now."
Image:
Passers-by are warned of potential cartel activity
Mr Chilton - who runs his ranch with wife Sue - describes it as a "national security issue" and is a firm believer that the border wall proposed by Donald Trump should indeed be built.
With the nearest border patrol about 80 miles away and little in the way of a police presence, he says it would appear as though officials have "given up the fight".
Risking it all on the world's unseen smuggling route
This harsh campaign takes in precarious mountain terrain and deadly jungles, and claims the lives of many
One sign on his land suggests as much, warning passers-by that "smuggling and illegal immigration may be encountered in this area".
And earlier this year, a border patrolman was almost killed on the ranch after being shot by a suspected smuggler.
Image:
Mr Chilton still gets great use out of his trusty Ford truck
Transporting drugs and desperate migrants is a lucrative business and Mr Chilton says the cartel practically controls the area, timing their movements from Mexico so that they can go unseen.
He said: "The border control don't come out here - they've left this area basically available to the cartel, it's basically a no man's land.
"We need a wall and forward operation bases - border officials should be posted at the wall, and if anyone climbs over the wall, they should arrest them."
For now, however, nothing is likely to change.
End
Note: from Sky News in the UK.
Cartel vs Cowboy: The man whose ranch is on smuggling route
by Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent, and Tom Acres, news reporter
https://news.sky.com/story/cartel-vs-cowboy-the-man-whose-ranch-is-on-smuggling-route-11527353.
However impressive your back garden might be, it will undoubtedly pale in comparison to the vast expanse of land owned and enjoyed by Arizonan rancher Jim Chilton.
The fifth-generation cattleman - who would look right at home on a John Wayne film set - has a 50,000 acre plot right on his doorstep, but there are more than cows and rattlesnakes to be found among the terrain.
The ranch is right on the US-Mexico border
Image:
Whenever he takes a ride out in his truck, there is a good chance Jim may catch a sighting of members of a Mexican cartel, smuggling drugs into the US via a border that amounts to nothing more than a flimsy fence.
With a southern drawl right at home in what he insists is still very much the "wild west", the rancher told Sky News his land was home to "one of the busiest crossing points in the area".
This flimsy fence is all that separates the ranch from Mexico
Image:
This flimsy fence is all that separates the ranch from Mexico
Even at the age of 89, Jim is able to shuffle his way into Mexico with about as much effort as it takes to get out of bed, and estimates that up to 4,000 "drug packers" come through each year.
But these days it is not just marijuana being funnelled through - there are also thousands of people being escorted.
Jim showcases just how easy it is to cross between the US and Mexico
Image:
The rancher showcases just how easy it is to cross between the US and Mexico
Migrants from all over the world, desperate to seek out a new life in the US, entrust smugglers with securing them safe passage to the border.
6:16. Video:
Smuggled to America: Human cargo
"You used to get old fashioned coyotes, who would bring people across, get $200 or $300 from them each, and guide them into the US," Mr Chilton recalls.
"Now the cartel has scouts on our mountains and charge about $3,000 for Mexicans wanting to come through, $7,000 to $9,000 for middle (Central) Americans, and $25,000 to $75,000 for Asians."
The girls putting their lives in the hands of a smuggler
Packed onto a pickup truck, desperate teenagers have entrusted a smuggler with securing them safe passage out of their homeland
He continues: "Most of the people coming through that are just looking for work are coming from Guatemala, Honduras and other Central American states.
"We've also had Iraqis come through, people from states in the Middle East, but most of the arrests made by the border patrol are from Guatemala now."
Image:
Passers-by are warned of potential cartel activity
Mr Chilton - who runs his ranch with wife Sue - describes it as a "national security issue" and is a firm believer that the border wall proposed by Donald Trump should indeed be built.
With the nearest border patrol about 80 miles away and little in the way of a police presence, he says it would appear as though officials have "given up the fight".
Risking it all on the world's unseen smuggling route
This harsh campaign takes in precarious mountain terrain and deadly jungles, and claims the lives of many
One sign on his land suggests as much, warning passers-by that "smuggling and illegal immigration may be encountered in this area".
And earlier this year, a border patrolman was almost killed on the ranch after being shot by a suspected smuggler.
Image:
Mr Chilton still gets great use out of his trusty Ford truck
Transporting drugs and desperate migrants is a lucrative business and Mr Chilton says the cartel practically controls the area, timing their movements from Mexico so that they can go unseen.
He said: "The border control don't come out here - they've left this area basically available to the cartel, it's basically a no man's land.
"We need a wall and forward operation bases - border officials should be posted at the wall, and if anyone climbs over the wall, they should arrest them."
For now, however, nothing is likely to change.
End
AZNIC UPDATE 25-10-18
AZNIC UPDATE 25 OCT 2018
Note: How can this be in a socialist paradise? Photos, etc. at link.
Thx
TOP STORY
Songs of hope: Nicaraguan musicians spread message about their homeland
Oct 25, 2018 Updated 14 hrs ago
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/bisbee/songs-of-hope-nicaraguan-musicians-spread-message-about-their-homeland/article_8cfa0f7c-d82f-11e8-a925-8f9ce6e3f245.html
Songs of hope: Nicaraguan musician spreads message about her homeland
Nicaraguans Nina Cardenal and her mother Katia are part of the nueva trova movement, which is a movement in Cuban music that emerged in the late '60s. The singers performed Tuesday evening at St. John's Episcopal Church's Parish Hall in Bisbee.
MARK LEVY HERALD/REVIEW
Songs of hope: Nicaraguan musician spreads message about her homeland
Katia Cardenal rehearses Tuesday night in Bisbee.
Nina Cardenal takes a quiet moment to herself. During the four months she and her mother have been in the United States, over 300 people have been killed in Nicaragua in a violent struggle against government oppression
Nicaraguan musician spreads message about her homeland
Katia Cardenal talks about the political climate in Nicaragua.
MARK LEVY HERALD/REVIEW\\
BISBEE — Over the summer, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Katia Cardenal packed a carry-on suitcase and left her country to perform in the United States, thinking she would be gone for three weeks.
Four months later, she and her daughter, Nina, are still on what she calls an "endless tour" throughout the U.S., Europe, and Mexico, staying with friends and fans throughout the world, while her home country descends into chaos.
In the time that Cardenal and Nina have been gone, over 300 people have been killed in Nicaragua in a violent struggle against government oppression.
Now considered an enemy of the government for speaking out against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Cardenal isn't sure when she can return home.
She plans to keep on singing in the meantime.
"They made this new law that if you are against the government you are a terrorist. If you go in demonstrations, you're a terrorist, and I was in every demonstration," said Cardenal, whose songs center around themes of social justice, peace and the environment. "So we decided to just be on the road."
The road brought her to St. John's Episcopal Church in Bisbee on Tuesday night, at the suggestion of Tucson musician Ted Warmbrand, who has been friends with Cardenal ever since he produced one of her albums in the 1980s. When he heard about the turmoil in Nicaragua, Warmbrand invited her to perform and speak in Tucson because of the supportive fanbase she had there, which he knew extended into Bisbee.
"I wanted her to see the town, just to enjoy Bisbee," he said.
Other than Tuesday night's performance, Cardenal has also spoken and performed at locations throughout southern Arizona over the past few months, he said.
"I said, 'I'll find people who love what you do.'"
That love was evident at St. John's, where a crowd of locals braved the cold and rain to hear Cardenal's voice ringing through the small church.
Many of them, including Bisbee resident Emilie Vardaman, had been listening to Cardenal's music for years. Cardenal and her late brother, Salvador, first gained international attention for performing with legendary singer-songwriters such as Pete Seeger and Jackson Browne in the 1980s, drawing attention to the Nicaraguan Revolution, a war between the U.S.-backed Contras and the Sandinistas.
"I've been listening to Katia for 30 years," said Vardaman, who helped to organize the concert. "I mean she's just wonderful. … That, combined with the political situation, and how bad things are there today, I really wanted her to be here.
"People aren't really aware of what's happening, so hopefully they'll get educated, and maybe something will happen. "
For Cardenal, spreading the message about violence and oppression in her home country decades after the turmoil of the '80s had subsided — this time with her daughter at her side, instead of her brother — is eerily familiar.
"It's like a parallel world," she said. "We are singing the same songs we sang in the '70s, '80s. People are becoming political prisoners 40 years after our revolution — it's hard to believe."
Although Nicaragua experienced relative stability following the end of the revolution in the 1990s, long-brewing issues with current president Daniel Ortega's 11-year rule came to a head in April of this year.
Student-led protests erupted over the government's announcement that it would cut pensions, which were violently suppressed by the national police and paramilitary groups. The conflict has since escalated, with many Nicaraguans calling for Ortega to step down, and the president refusing to do so.
"People want peace, want respect, want to stop corruption," said Cardenal.
"They want to be able to say, 'I don't like you, I don't want you.' All of my life, I haven't been able to say I don't like you. Because I'm afraid — even though I'm a singer and I talk about human rights, I prefer not to say anything, because it can harm me and it can harm my family. But now, I don't care anymore, and that's the truth.
"And I think most of the Nicaraguans have this feeling, also."
While Cardenal spoke of the violence and oppression in Nicaragua during the concert, she also discussed the joy that music had brought her over the years. She told of the embarrassment she experienced as a 20-year-old writing romantic tunes in secret, and the happiness she felt when she learned a Catholic school used one of her songs in their classes.
"It's not just about Nicaragua," said Warmbrand. "That's part of it, but it's beautiful music. I think she's giving so much pleasure to people over the years, and the chance to give something back to her is important."
As for Cardenal's part, she said she hopes to continue sharing her story through song, whether it be in a concert hall at a university or a tiny church in the Mule Mountains.
"I can never be one of the people who have a big influence in changing the reality, but I can change people's hearts," she said. "I believe in a personal revolution. So when I sing, I think that maybe one heart can change a house, a community, a school or a politician.
"So I don't know where my seeds are going to fall. But I think good energy can bring something good."
END
Note: How can this be in a socialist paradise? Photos, etc. at link.
Thx
TOP STORY
Songs of hope: Nicaraguan musicians spread message about their homeland
Oct 25, 2018 Updated 14 hrs ago
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/bisbee/songs-of-hope-nicaraguan-musicians-spread-message-about-their-homeland/article_8cfa0f7c-d82f-11e8-a925-8f9ce6e3f245.html
Songs of hope: Nicaraguan musician spreads message about her homeland
Nicaraguans Nina Cardenal and her mother Katia are part of the nueva trova movement, which is a movement in Cuban music that emerged in the late '60s. The singers performed Tuesday evening at St. John's Episcopal Church's Parish Hall in Bisbee.
MARK LEVY HERALD/REVIEW
Songs of hope: Nicaraguan musician spreads message about her homeland
Katia Cardenal rehearses Tuesday night in Bisbee.
Nina Cardenal takes a quiet moment to herself. During the four months she and her mother have been in the United States, over 300 people have been killed in Nicaragua in a violent struggle against government oppression
Nicaraguan musician spreads message about her homeland
Katia Cardenal talks about the political climate in Nicaragua.
MARK LEVY HERALD/REVIEW\\
BISBEE — Over the summer, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Katia Cardenal packed a carry-on suitcase and left her country to perform in the United States, thinking she would be gone for three weeks.
Four months later, she and her daughter, Nina, are still on what she calls an "endless tour" throughout the U.S., Europe, and Mexico, staying with friends and fans throughout the world, while her home country descends into chaos.
In the time that Cardenal and Nina have been gone, over 300 people have been killed in Nicaragua in a violent struggle against government oppression.
Now considered an enemy of the government for speaking out against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Cardenal isn't sure when she can return home.
She plans to keep on singing in the meantime.
"They made this new law that if you are against the government you are a terrorist. If you go in demonstrations, you're a terrorist, and I was in every demonstration," said Cardenal, whose songs center around themes of social justice, peace and the environment. "So we decided to just be on the road."
The road brought her to St. John's Episcopal Church in Bisbee on Tuesday night, at the suggestion of Tucson musician Ted Warmbrand, who has been friends with Cardenal ever since he produced one of her albums in the 1980s. When he heard about the turmoil in Nicaragua, Warmbrand invited her to perform and speak in Tucson because of the supportive fanbase she had there, which he knew extended into Bisbee.
"I wanted her to see the town, just to enjoy Bisbee," he said.
Other than Tuesday night's performance, Cardenal has also spoken and performed at locations throughout southern Arizona over the past few months, he said.
"I said, 'I'll find people who love what you do.'"
That love was evident at St. John's, where a crowd of locals braved the cold and rain to hear Cardenal's voice ringing through the small church.
Many of them, including Bisbee resident Emilie Vardaman, had been listening to Cardenal's music for years. Cardenal and her late brother, Salvador, first gained international attention for performing with legendary singer-songwriters such as Pete Seeger and Jackson Browne in the 1980s, drawing attention to the Nicaraguan Revolution, a war between the U.S.-backed Contras and the Sandinistas.
"I've been listening to Katia for 30 years," said Vardaman, who helped to organize the concert. "I mean she's just wonderful. … That, combined with the political situation, and how bad things are there today, I really wanted her to be here.
"People aren't really aware of what's happening, so hopefully they'll get educated, and maybe something will happen. "
For Cardenal, spreading the message about violence and oppression in her home country decades after the turmoil of the '80s had subsided — this time with her daughter at her side, instead of her brother — is eerily familiar.
"It's like a parallel world," she said. "We are singing the same songs we sang in the '70s, '80s. People are becoming political prisoners 40 years after our revolution — it's hard to believe."
Although Nicaragua experienced relative stability following the end of the revolution in the 1990s, long-brewing issues with current president Daniel Ortega's 11-year rule came to a head in April of this year.
Student-led protests erupted over the government's announcement that it would cut pensions, which were violently suppressed by the national police and paramilitary groups. The conflict has since escalated, with many Nicaraguans calling for Ortega to step down, and the president refusing to do so.
"People want peace, want respect, want to stop corruption," said Cardenal.
"They want to be able to say, 'I don't like you, I don't want you.' All of my life, I haven't been able to say I don't like you. Because I'm afraid — even though I'm a singer and I talk about human rights, I prefer not to say anything, because it can harm me and it can harm my family. But now, I don't care anymore, and that's the truth.
"And I think most of the Nicaraguans have this feeling, also."
While Cardenal spoke of the violence and oppression in Nicaragua during the concert, she also discussed the joy that music had brought her over the years. She told of the embarrassment she experienced as a 20-year-old writing romantic tunes in secret, and the happiness she felt when she learned a Catholic school used one of her songs in their classes.
"It's not just about Nicaragua," said Warmbrand. "That's part of it, but it's beautiful music. I think she's giving so much pleasure to people over the years, and the chance to give something back to her is important."
As for Cardenal's part, she said she hopes to continue sharing her story through song, whether it be in a concert hall at a university or a tiny church in the Mule Mountains.
"I can never be one of the people who have a big influence in changing the reality, but I can change people's hearts," she said. "I believe in a personal revolution. So when I sing, I think that maybe one heart can change a house, a community, a school or a politician.
"So I don't know where my seeds are going to fall. But I think good energy can bring something good."
END
Thursday, October 25, 2018
AZMEX I3-2 25-10-18
AZMEX I3-2 25 OCT 2018
Note: interesting photos at link:
Thx
Border agents stop attempt to smuggle 18 people in refrigerated trailer
Border Patrol agents found 18 people inside the refrigerated trailer on Monday, Oct. 22.
(Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
By Tucson News Now |
October 25, 2018 at 6:12 AM MST - Updated October 25 at 6:12 AM
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/2018/10/25/border-agents-stop-attempt-smuggle-people-refrigerated-trailer/
NOGALES, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Border Patrol agents arrested a truck driver who was caught
trying to bring 18 people across the international border illegally on Monday, Oct. 22.
According to information from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
the 47-year-old man was arrested after a canine alerted to an odor and a secondary inspection revealed the people in the trailer.
Agents found 16 Mexican nationals and two Guatemalan nationals inside the 36-degree refrigerated trailer.
They were all arrested and processed for immigration violations.
The truck driver, also a Mexican national, faces federal smuggling charges.
End
Note: interesting as there has been little to no verification nor vetting of the participants .
Thx
Migrant walk
There are no gangs or terrorists among the displaced
Renato Sales dismisses any risk to national security
Néstor Jiménez and Roberto Garduño
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/10/25/politica/004n1pol.
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, October 25, 2018, p. 4
Renato Sales Heredia, head of the National Security Commission (CNS), said that in the caravan of Honduran migrants there are no members of the Mara Salvatrucha or terrorists, and less is national security at risk.
Meanwhile, Luis Raúl González Pérez, president of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) -who participated in the forum Women deprived of liberty, organized by the parliamentary group of Morena ( the political party to take control of Mexico on
Dec. 2 ) in the Chamber of Deputies-, said that in the treatment of migrants, containment has prevailed over humanitarian attention.
Interviewed at the end of his participation in the forum, Sales Heredia replied to the version that locates gangs and terrorists among the thousands of Hondurans who travel through Chiapas territory.
"We have not detected any objective related to terrorism until now; neither has any marau salvatrucha or any member of a gang been arrested. However, the objectives sent by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are being addressed. "
He assured that the federal government complies with the New York agreement by guaranteeing an orderly, safe and regular migration, that is, that it would be possible to apply for refugee status or complementary protection, which is what the law states
- Is there any risk to national security with this migrant caravan?
-I do not see a risk to national security. One must understand that one thing is national security, another is internal security, another is public security and another is public safety.
When asked how many federal agents watch the caravan members, he said that up to Wednesday, 1,300 had been deployed in Chiapas.
For its part, the ombudsman demanded to place above all the humanitarian attention to Central American migrants. "Mexico has not demanded and has not called the United States to have a policy of humanitarian attention with our compatriots? Well let's do the same. That is what we demand.
People do not come for pleasure, come by necessity, to preserve life or to get away or get bread. So, I think that Mexico has been, even, a promoter of migration policies. In December, the Global Compact for Migration will be signed and launched. Mexico was co-facilitator together with Switzerland for this agreement. Let us respond with that political will to sign that agreement by providing humanitarian attention to these people.
END
CENTRAL AMERICANS AT MAPASTEPEC; TENS RETURNS TO THEIR COUNTRY FOR FEAR OR TIREDNESS /
Migrant walk
Central Americans spend the night in Mapastepec; dozens return to their country due to fear or fatigue
Photo
▲ Men, women and children take advantage of the early hours of the day to continue their way to the northern border. Photo Víctor Camacho
Elio Henríquez
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, October 25, 2018, p. two
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/10/25/politica/002n2pol
Mapastepec, Chis., The more than 7 thousand members of the caravan of Central American migrants, mainly Hondurans, stayed overnight in Mapastepec, a municipality located on the coast of Chiapas.
It is the third Mexican city to which they arrive since last Sunday, when they left the border of Ciudad Hidalgo. That day they slept in Tapachula and Monday and Tuesday in Huixtla. They have traveled 150 kilometers in four days.
The Central Americans, who left on October 13 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, began arriving at Mapastepec at 12 noon in small groups that traveled in private vehicles that moved them in solidarity and settled in the central park.
During the afternoon and evening hundreds more were arriving to occupy spaces in temples, a school, a multipurpose room and the house of culture, among other spaces. Many have blisters on their feet, flu or cough.
Between Huixtla and Mapastepec, as well as other towns through which they passed, the settlers provided them with food, clothing, water and other help.
The contingent began to leave Huixtla at 4 am, after a day of rest and mourning for the death of Honduran Melvin José Gómez Escobar, 22, who died Monday after falling from a moving truck.
The mayor of Huixtla, José Luis Laparra Calderón, said that during the early morning he accompanied the caravan to the exit of the city with patrols of the municipal police and Civil Protection units to provide them with shelter.
We are satisfied with the attention we gave them. Many people stayed and today there will be buses to return them. The municipality and the embassy of Honduras will offer transportation to return.
The mayor thanked the population of Huixtla for all the support he gave to the Central Americans, since there is no help from the federal government, and the state was on the sidelines.
But not everyone followed the walk. At least 148 decided to return to Honduras and requested support from Mayor Laparra Calderón for his transfer.
This group departed last night on four buses to Tapachula, where they will perform the immigration procedures and then travel to Honduras, whose ambassador in Mexico, Aldén Rivera Montes, spoke with them and offered them support.
Saraí Guillén, 19 years old, who takes her one year old daughter, said she is going back to her country because we are starting to travel through Mexico and it is getting very dangerous. I'd better return now that I have my daughter and I'm on time, lest later I return without her; It is better to make decisions on time.
Single mother, the young woman pointed out that at least we are both in good health, but for me it is difficult to continue, because I have to wear it (in my arms), since she does not leave with anyone else. I was looking to give my daughter a better future, but no way, I'm back.
Juan Carlos, 26, said he will return to his country because the road looks very difficult. I hope they reach the border, although it is very hard. Now we are whole. I do not continue because I have children and I do not want to leave them bounced.
Verónica Vázquez, 25 years old, has two children, aged five and a year and a half. I'm back because I do not have any money, they stole it along with my phone and my identity card. I'm back for the one-year-old girl who is already sick, even if there is no work, she said.
Also Blanca Serrano, 30, who travels with three children, decided not to resume the walk. "I return to Honduras because there was a chaos in the caravan and I do not like it, because I take my children. I was going to continue to the top but I have to save the lives of my children. Why do I continue? It is very risky and there are many rumors, besides that the roads are dangerous and many fight in the caravan.
I do not come back sad, but happy because on the way they treated us well and I came to know Mexico. It's nice and I'd like to stay here, if I get asylum. I'm sad also for not continuing, but happy because the children are fine, fat and healthy, since they gave us enough food, clothes, shoes, medicines.
End
Note: interesting photos at link:
Thx
Border agents stop attempt to smuggle 18 people in refrigerated trailer
Border Patrol agents found 18 people inside the refrigerated trailer on Monday, Oct. 22.
(Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
By Tucson News Now |
October 25, 2018 at 6:12 AM MST - Updated October 25 at 6:12 AM
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/2018/10/25/border-agents-stop-attempt-smuggle-people-refrigerated-trailer/
NOGALES, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Border Patrol agents arrested a truck driver who was caught
trying to bring 18 people across the international border illegally on Monday, Oct. 22.
According to information from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
the 47-year-old man was arrested after a canine alerted to an odor and a secondary inspection revealed the people in the trailer.
Agents found 16 Mexican nationals and two Guatemalan nationals inside the 36-degree refrigerated trailer.
They were all arrested and processed for immigration violations.
The truck driver, also a Mexican national, faces federal smuggling charges.
End
Note: interesting as there has been little to no verification nor vetting of the participants .
Thx
Migrant walk
There are no gangs or terrorists among the displaced
Renato Sales dismisses any risk to national security
Néstor Jiménez and Roberto Garduño
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/10/25/politica/004n1pol.
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, October 25, 2018, p. 4
Renato Sales Heredia, head of the National Security Commission (CNS), said that in the caravan of Honduran migrants there are no members of the Mara Salvatrucha or terrorists, and less is national security at risk.
Meanwhile, Luis Raúl González Pérez, president of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) -who participated in the forum Women deprived of liberty, organized by the parliamentary group of Morena ( the political party to take control of Mexico on
Dec. 2 ) in the Chamber of Deputies-, said that in the treatment of migrants, containment has prevailed over humanitarian attention.
Interviewed at the end of his participation in the forum, Sales Heredia replied to the version that locates gangs and terrorists among the thousands of Hondurans who travel through Chiapas territory.
"We have not detected any objective related to terrorism until now; neither has any marau salvatrucha or any member of a gang been arrested. However, the objectives sent by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are being addressed. "
He assured that the federal government complies with the New York agreement by guaranteeing an orderly, safe and regular migration, that is, that it would be possible to apply for refugee status or complementary protection, which is what the law states
- Is there any risk to national security with this migrant caravan?
-I do not see a risk to national security. One must understand that one thing is national security, another is internal security, another is public security and another is public safety.
When asked how many federal agents watch the caravan members, he said that up to Wednesday, 1,300 had been deployed in Chiapas.
For its part, the ombudsman demanded to place above all the humanitarian attention to Central American migrants. "Mexico has not demanded and has not called the United States to have a policy of humanitarian attention with our compatriots? Well let's do the same. That is what we demand.
People do not come for pleasure, come by necessity, to preserve life or to get away or get bread. So, I think that Mexico has been, even, a promoter of migration policies. In December, the Global Compact for Migration will be signed and launched. Mexico was co-facilitator together with Switzerland for this agreement. Let us respond with that political will to sign that agreement by providing humanitarian attention to these people.
END
CENTRAL AMERICANS AT MAPASTEPEC; TENS RETURNS TO THEIR COUNTRY FOR FEAR OR TIREDNESS /
Migrant walk
Central Americans spend the night in Mapastepec; dozens return to their country due to fear or fatigue
Photo
▲ Men, women and children take advantage of the early hours of the day to continue their way to the northern border. Photo Víctor Camacho
Elio Henríquez
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, October 25, 2018, p. two
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2018/10/25/politica/002n2pol
Mapastepec, Chis., The more than 7 thousand members of the caravan of Central American migrants, mainly Hondurans, stayed overnight in Mapastepec, a municipality located on the coast of Chiapas.
It is the third Mexican city to which they arrive since last Sunday, when they left the border of Ciudad Hidalgo. That day they slept in Tapachula and Monday and Tuesday in Huixtla. They have traveled 150 kilometers in four days.
The Central Americans, who left on October 13 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, began arriving at Mapastepec at 12 noon in small groups that traveled in private vehicles that moved them in solidarity and settled in the central park.
During the afternoon and evening hundreds more were arriving to occupy spaces in temples, a school, a multipurpose room and the house of culture, among other spaces. Many have blisters on their feet, flu or cough.
Between Huixtla and Mapastepec, as well as other towns through which they passed, the settlers provided them with food, clothing, water and other help.
The contingent began to leave Huixtla at 4 am, after a day of rest and mourning for the death of Honduran Melvin José Gómez Escobar, 22, who died Monday after falling from a moving truck.
The mayor of Huixtla, José Luis Laparra Calderón, said that during the early morning he accompanied the caravan to the exit of the city with patrols of the municipal police and Civil Protection units to provide them with shelter.
We are satisfied with the attention we gave them. Many people stayed and today there will be buses to return them. The municipality and the embassy of Honduras will offer transportation to return.
The mayor thanked the population of Huixtla for all the support he gave to the Central Americans, since there is no help from the federal government, and the state was on the sidelines.
But not everyone followed the walk. At least 148 decided to return to Honduras and requested support from Mayor Laparra Calderón for his transfer.
This group departed last night on four buses to Tapachula, where they will perform the immigration procedures and then travel to Honduras, whose ambassador in Mexico, Aldén Rivera Montes, spoke with them and offered them support.
Saraí Guillén, 19 years old, who takes her one year old daughter, said she is going back to her country because we are starting to travel through Mexico and it is getting very dangerous. I'd better return now that I have my daughter and I'm on time, lest later I return without her; It is better to make decisions on time.
Single mother, the young woman pointed out that at least we are both in good health, but for me it is difficult to continue, because I have to wear it (in my arms), since she does not leave with anyone else. I was looking to give my daughter a better future, but no way, I'm back.
Juan Carlos, 26, said he will return to his country because the road looks very difficult. I hope they reach the border, although it is very hard. Now we are whole. I do not continue because I have children and I do not want to leave them bounced.
Verónica Vázquez, 25 years old, has two children, aged five and a year and a half. I'm back because I do not have any money, they stole it along with my phone and my identity card. I'm back for the one-year-old girl who is already sick, even if there is no work, she said.
Also Blanca Serrano, 30, who travels with three children, decided not to resume the walk. "I return to Honduras because there was a chaos in the caravan and I do not like it, because I take my children. I was going to continue to the top but I have to save the lives of my children. Why do I continue? It is very risky and there are many rumors, besides that the roads are dangerous and many fight in the caravan.
I do not come back sad, but happy because on the way they treated us well and I came to know Mexico. It's nice and I'd like to stay here, if I get asylum. I'm sad also for not continuing, but happy because the children are fine, fat and healthy, since they gave us enough food, clothes, shoes, medicines.
End
AZMEX I3 25-10-18
AZMEX I3 25 OCT 2018
Spray migrants with insecticide in Chiapas
Details Published on Wednesday, October 24, 2018,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=120025.
Chiapas
Last Tuesday night, brigadistas from the state of Chiapas sprayed insecticide on the migrant caravan that remains in the community of Huixtla, in southern Chiapas.
When the Central American migrants were mostly sitting in the street, some sprayers arrived to spray gas to
"avoid contagion of dengue and diseases transmitted by mosquitoes," according to a video released by Pie de Página and Chiapas Paralelo.
No matter if there were people, including several children, the brigadistas sprayed gas, while people brought their hands to their faces.
"What made me offended is that they just pass by where the people are," said one of the Central American youth.
Hours before the case that caused outrage, the migrant caravan had met with mothers of Central American migrants
who are looking for their missing children, who were last seen in our country.
"Why do we come to Mexico? Because we know that it was here where our children were last seen, "said a mother of missing persons.
END
Spray migrants with insecticide in Chiapas
Details Published on Wednesday, October 24, 2018,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=120025.
Chiapas
Last Tuesday night, brigadistas from the state of Chiapas sprayed insecticide on the migrant caravan that remains in the community of Huixtla, in southern Chiapas.
When the Central American migrants were mostly sitting in the street, some sprayers arrived to spray gas to
"avoid contagion of dengue and diseases transmitted by mosquitoes," according to a video released by Pie de Página and Chiapas Paralelo.
No matter if there were people, including several children, the brigadistas sprayed gas, while people brought their hands to their faces.
"What made me offended is that they just pass by where the people are," said one of the Central American youth.
Hours before the case that caused outrage, the migrant caravan had met with mothers of Central American migrants
who are looking for their missing children, who were last seen in our country.
"Why do we come to Mexico? Because we know that it was here where our children were last seen, "said a mother of missing persons.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 24-10-18
AZMEX SPECIAL 24 OCT 2018
Note: local interest mostly.
ADEQ still seeking money to fix sewer line
By Genesis Lara
Nogales International Oct 24, 2018 Updated 2 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/adeq-still-seeking-money-to-fix-sewer-line/article_7cacb092-d7a9-11e8-82e3-afaf6357c574.html
IOI Hohokam (copy)
Crews work to cover up an exposed section of the IOI sewer line near Hohokam Drive in Nogales in July 2017 after floodwater washed away part of the bank of the Nogales Wash.
File photo by Kendal Blust
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is still scrambling to find resources to meet the expected multi-million dollar cost of fixing a crumbling cross-border sewer line
in Santa Cruz County.
During a presentation last week to the County Board of Supervisors, Misael Cabrera, ADEQ director, said the agency is currently in negotiations with
the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission to gather funds for a cured-in-place pipelining project to shore up the International Outfall Interceptor,
an 8.8-mile line that carries 12 million gallons of sewage each day from the U.S.-Mexico border to a treatment plant in Rio Rico.
"Our federal government is going to spend a lot of money and they're asking for a local match," Cabrera said.
He said the IBWC has $21 million, or 78 percent of the cost of the project. However, it asks that locals come up with the funds for the other 22 percent,
which could come from nonprofits, grants, federal entities or local sources.
"Nogales has repeatedly said that they stand ready to do their fair share," Cabrera said, though he added that the city has argued that 22 percent is not a "fair scenario."
Cabrera laid out the shared-funding proposal for the first time publicly during a meeting on July 9 in Tubac. At the time, he said the I
BWC had given him a June 30 deadline to respond to the plan, but he was able to extend it to July 13.
His presentation to the supervisors on Oct. 17 suggested the offer is still on the table.
In an effort to gather the estimated $6 million for the non-IBWC share of the repairs, Cabrera said he is engaging in conversations with other entities
such as the Nature Conservancy and the Arizona Water and Land Trust. He said he has already secured a $1 million commitment from a private foundation.
"The water is very valuable to Arizona and I do not personally believe that it is a purely federal issue because the benefits of the water are so great for the entire area,"
Cabrera told the NI.
Treated effluent from the wastewater plant is discharged into the north-flowing Santa Cruz River, supporting the riparian ecosystem
and agriculture, and providing groundwater recharge to the aquifer.
However, Cabrera also voiced concerns over the permanency of the water that Arizona benefits from,
noting that Mexico could decide to keep it at any given moment.
He specifically mentioned the El Pilar mine in Sonora, Mexico, adding that he has heard rumors about the mine
initiating negotiations with Nogales, Sonora to keep the water.
"Mines are thirsty. They require large amounts of water. For the municipio of Nogales, Sonora,
it would be very challenging to build the infrastructure to keep that water, (but) if they had help from El Pilar, all of a sudden the equation changes," he said.
While the water is part of an international treaty and no outcome can be guaranteed,
Cabrera said that the IBWC is willing to prioritize negotiations with Mexico in regard to the permanence of the wastewater flow.
As for the county, the supervisors were hesitant to take on a significant role in the situation –
the IOI is managed via an often-contentious agreement between the IBWC and City of Nogales – but agreed they would try to help in a small way.
"I personally have a lot of red flags because of the issues the city has had with IBWC historically," said Supervisor Rudy Molera.
"And moving forward, my big fear is to put the county in a situation similar to what the city is in right now, where you're entitled to a certain percentage to commit to something."
Supervisor Manuel Ruiz said that as the government of Santa Cruz County, the board has some obligation to help deal with the issue.
Supervisor Bruce Bracker agreed, adding: "As a county, we want to help you find a solution, but we don't want to end up with ownership."
End
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Mantiene Sonora liderazgo en minería: gobernadora Pavlovich
Publicado el Martes, 23 Octubre 2018 22:06
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https://www.sonora.gob.mx/noticias/119-noticias-destacadas/5041-mantiene-sonora-liderazgo-en-miner%C3%ADa-gobernadora-pavlovich.html
Todo el respaldo de su Gobierno para que Sonora siga siendo líder nacional en el sector minero, expresó la gobernadora Claudia Pavlovich Arellano al inaugurar el XIII Congreso Internacional de Minería 2018, donde reafirmó su compromiso de seguir impulsando hasta lograr sea una realidad la deducibilidad en la exploración minera.
Ante empresarios, académicos y representantes de la minería a nivel nacional e internacional, aseguró que el sector minero cuenta con ella como una aliada para seguir creciendo en el tema económico y de desarrollo minero, y que con esta iniciativa de ley se incrementarán los proyectos mineros y de inversión en la entidad.
"Voy a seguir siendo la principal impulsora para que se dé la deducibilidad de la exploración minera para ser realmente competitiva la exploración y podamos tener muchos mayores proyectos aquí en Sonora y en todo el país, lo hice en la Conago, hice una iniciativa ante el Congreso del Estado; esta iniciativa la llevamos al Congreso de la Unión", reiteró ante Mario Alonso Cantú, subsecretario de Minería Federal; Fernando Oviedo, presidente de Asociación de Ingenieros de Minas Metalurgistas y Geólogos de México (AIMMGM) Distrito Sonora e Israel Gutiérrez Guerrero, director del Fideicomiso de Fomento Minero (Fifomi).
La gobernadora Pavlovich destacó que en Sonora la minería genera 18 mil 500 empleos directos y más de 80 mil indirectos y es la principal actividad en 22 municipios, con 45 minas de mediana y gran escala en operación, 16 de inversión extranjera y 29 de grupos nacionales, extrayendo oro, cobre, plata, molibdeno, fierro, minerales no metálicos y rocas dimensionables, como sulfato de sodio, barita, yeso y cal, entre otros.
Las inversiones mineras, dijo, mantienen un crecimiento sostenido, en 2015, se invirtieron 312 millones de dólares, y en 2018 aumentaron a 800 millones, para sumar un acumulado de mil 725 millones de dólares en lo que va del sexenio.
"Esto nos habla de que el inversionista confía en este gobierno, así como en la gran capacidad y calidad del trabajador minero sonorense", subrayó la gobernadora Pavlovich.
La mandataria estatal agregó que entre las nuevas inversiones se encuentra la entrada en operación de las nuevas minas de oro La Perla, La Minita, Santana, La Yaqui y La Elena; así como la ampliación de La Herradura de Fresnillo PLC y las nuevas minas de Grupo México, El Pilar y Pilares.
Otro de los proyectos que ya son un hecho, explicó, es la inversión de Bacanora Lithium con su proyecto Sonora Litio en Bacadéhuachi, con una inversión de 420 millones de dólares, que convertirá a Sonora en el primer productor de Litio en México y uno de los principales en el mundo.
En Sonora, enfatizó, reafirman el compromiso con el sector minero del estado y del país, para incrementar sus oportunidades de crecimiento e impulsar una minería moderna, innovadora y socialmente responsable.
En la inauguración del XIII Congreso Internacional de Minería 2018, la gobernadora Pavlovich junto con Fernando Alanís Ortega entregó el galardón Vite Picazo a Jaime Islas, Mario Antonio Galindo, y a las empresas Agnico Eagle y GlobeXplore.
Previo a la inauguración de este evento, la mandataria estatal se reunió con miembros del Consejo Directivo de la Cámara Minera de México, ante quienes afirmó que la vocación minera de Sonora permite que las inversiones en la entidad se incrementen cada año y se generen más empleos.
"Las inversiones mineras se mantienen en un crecimiento sostenido, en 2016 se invirtieron 355 millones de dólares; en 2017, 570 millones de dólares; y en 2018, 800 millones de dólares, para sumar un total de mil 725 millones de dólares invertidos en nuestro estado por sus compañías establecidas aquí", señaló ante los representantes de minas que tienen presencia en el estado.
Fernando Alanís Ortega, presidente de la Cámara Minera de México (Camimex), reconoció el impulso que la gobernadora Pavlovich le ha dado a la industria desde que inició su administración, lo que se traduce en más inversiones.
"Estamos muy contentos de estar en este gran estado, un estado minero cien por ciento, con una gobernadora que desde el día cero entendió perfectamente bien lo que es la minería y que ha estado defendiendo, la ha estado impulsando, y la ha estado promoviendo, y la prueba está en las inversiones que siguen llegando en el estado", indicó.
Sergio Almazán Esqueda, director de Camimex, reconoció el potencial que tiene Sonora en materia de minería, ya que destaca a nivel nacional en la producción de oro, cobre, molibdeno y plata.
"Sonora es el número uno en muchas cosas, en minería, en la participación por estados, es el principal productor de oro, el principal productor de cobre, el principal productor de molibdeno, y pues importante productor de plata y de otros no metálicos", aseveró.
Por su parte, Célida López Cárdenas, presidenta municipal de Hermosillo, agradeció el trabajo que la gobernadora Claudia Pavlovich y su equipo han hecho, impulsando la industria minera en beneficio de los sonorenses.
Presentes: Euridice González, presidenta WIM (Women in Mining); Miguel Ernesto Pompa Corella y Jorge Vidal Ahumada, secretarios de Gobierno y Economía, respectivamente.
End
Note: local interest mostly.
ADEQ still seeking money to fix sewer line
By Genesis Lara
Nogales International Oct 24, 2018 Updated 2 hrs ago
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/adeq-still-seeking-money-to-fix-sewer-line/article_7cacb092-d7a9-11e8-82e3-afaf6357c574.html
IOI Hohokam (copy)
Crews work to cover up an exposed section of the IOI sewer line near Hohokam Drive in Nogales in July 2017 after floodwater washed away part of the bank of the Nogales Wash.
File photo by Kendal Blust
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is still scrambling to find resources to meet the expected multi-million dollar cost of fixing a crumbling cross-border sewer line
in Santa Cruz County.
During a presentation last week to the County Board of Supervisors, Misael Cabrera, ADEQ director, said the agency is currently in negotiations with
the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission to gather funds for a cured-in-place pipelining project to shore up the International Outfall Interceptor,
an 8.8-mile line that carries 12 million gallons of sewage each day from the U.S.-Mexico border to a treatment plant in Rio Rico.
"Our federal government is going to spend a lot of money and they're asking for a local match," Cabrera said.
He said the IBWC has $21 million, or 78 percent of the cost of the project. However, it asks that locals come up with the funds for the other 22 percent,
which could come from nonprofits, grants, federal entities or local sources.
"Nogales has repeatedly said that they stand ready to do their fair share," Cabrera said, though he added that the city has argued that 22 percent is not a "fair scenario."
Cabrera laid out the shared-funding proposal for the first time publicly during a meeting on July 9 in Tubac. At the time, he said the I
BWC had given him a June 30 deadline to respond to the plan, but he was able to extend it to July 13.
His presentation to the supervisors on Oct. 17 suggested the offer is still on the table.
In an effort to gather the estimated $6 million for the non-IBWC share of the repairs, Cabrera said he is engaging in conversations with other entities
such as the Nature Conservancy and the Arizona Water and Land Trust. He said he has already secured a $1 million commitment from a private foundation.
"The water is very valuable to Arizona and I do not personally believe that it is a purely federal issue because the benefits of the water are so great for the entire area,"
Cabrera told the NI.
Treated effluent from the wastewater plant is discharged into the north-flowing Santa Cruz River, supporting the riparian ecosystem
and agriculture, and providing groundwater recharge to the aquifer.
However, Cabrera also voiced concerns over the permanency of the water that Arizona benefits from,
noting that Mexico could decide to keep it at any given moment.
He specifically mentioned the El Pilar mine in Sonora, Mexico, adding that he has heard rumors about the mine
initiating negotiations with Nogales, Sonora to keep the water.
"Mines are thirsty. They require large amounts of water. For the municipio of Nogales, Sonora,
it would be very challenging to build the infrastructure to keep that water, (but) if they had help from El Pilar, all of a sudden the equation changes," he said.
While the water is part of an international treaty and no outcome can be guaranteed,
Cabrera said that the IBWC is willing to prioritize negotiations with Mexico in regard to the permanence of the wastewater flow.
As for the county, the supervisors were hesitant to take on a significant role in the situation –
the IOI is managed via an often-contentious agreement between the IBWC and City of Nogales – but agreed they would try to help in a small way.
"I personally have a lot of red flags because of the issues the city has had with IBWC historically," said Supervisor Rudy Molera.
"And moving forward, my big fear is to put the county in a situation similar to what the city is in right now, where you're entitled to a certain percentage to commit to something."
Supervisor Manuel Ruiz said that as the government of Santa Cruz County, the board has some obligation to help deal with the issue.
Supervisor Bruce Bracker agreed, adding: "As a county, we want to help you find a solution, but we don't want to end up with ownership."
End
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Mantiene Sonora liderazgo en minería: gobernadora Pavlovich
Publicado el Martes, 23 Octubre 2018 22:06
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https://www.sonora.gob.mx/noticias/119-noticias-destacadas/5041-mantiene-sonora-liderazgo-en-miner%C3%ADa-gobernadora-pavlovich.html
Todo el respaldo de su Gobierno para que Sonora siga siendo líder nacional en el sector minero, expresó la gobernadora Claudia Pavlovich Arellano al inaugurar el XIII Congreso Internacional de Minería 2018, donde reafirmó su compromiso de seguir impulsando hasta lograr sea una realidad la deducibilidad en la exploración minera.
Ante empresarios, académicos y representantes de la minería a nivel nacional e internacional, aseguró que el sector minero cuenta con ella como una aliada para seguir creciendo en el tema económico y de desarrollo minero, y que con esta iniciativa de ley se incrementarán los proyectos mineros y de inversión en la entidad.
"Voy a seguir siendo la principal impulsora para que se dé la deducibilidad de la exploración minera para ser realmente competitiva la exploración y podamos tener muchos mayores proyectos aquí en Sonora y en todo el país, lo hice en la Conago, hice una iniciativa ante el Congreso del Estado; esta iniciativa la llevamos al Congreso de la Unión", reiteró ante Mario Alonso Cantú, subsecretario de Minería Federal; Fernando Oviedo, presidente de Asociación de Ingenieros de Minas Metalurgistas y Geólogos de México (AIMMGM) Distrito Sonora e Israel Gutiérrez Guerrero, director del Fideicomiso de Fomento Minero (Fifomi).
La gobernadora Pavlovich destacó que en Sonora la minería genera 18 mil 500 empleos directos y más de 80 mil indirectos y es la principal actividad en 22 municipios, con 45 minas de mediana y gran escala en operación, 16 de inversión extranjera y 29 de grupos nacionales, extrayendo oro, cobre, plata, molibdeno, fierro, minerales no metálicos y rocas dimensionables, como sulfato de sodio, barita, yeso y cal, entre otros.
Las inversiones mineras, dijo, mantienen un crecimiento sostenido, en 2015, se invirtieron 312 millones de dólares, y en 2018 aumentaron a 800 millones, para sumar un acumulado de mil 725 millones de dólares en lo que va del sexenio.
"Esto nos habla de que el inversionista confía en este gobierno, así como en la gran capacidad y calidad del trabajador minero sonorense", subrayó la gobernadora Pavlovich.
La mandataria estatal agregó que entre las nuevas inversiones se encuentra la entrada en operación de las nuevas minas de oro La Perla, La Minita, Santana, La Yaqui y La Elena; así como la ampliación de La Herradura de Fresnillo PLC y las nuevas minas de Grupo México, El Pilar y Pilares.
Otro de los proyectos que ya son un hecho, explicó, es la inversión de Bacanora Lithium con su proyecto Sonora Litio en Bacadéhuachi, con una inversión de 420 millones de dólares, que convertirá a Sonora en el primer productor de Litio en México y uno de los principales en el mundo.
En Sonora, enfatizó, reafirman el compromiso con el sector minero del estado y del país, para incrementar sus oportunidades de crecimiento e impulsar una minería moderna, innovadora y socialmente responsable.
En la inauguración del XIII Congreso Internacional de Minería 2018, la gobernadora Pavlovich junto con Fernando Alanís Ortega entregó el galardón Vite Picazo a Jaime Islas, Mario Antonio Galindo, y a las empresas Agnico Eagle y GlobeXplore.
Previo a la inauguración de este evento, la mandataria estatal se reunió con miembros del Consejo Directivo de la Cámara Minera de México, ante quienes afirmó que la vocación minera de Sonora permite que las inversiones en la entidad se incrementen cada año y se generen más empleos.
"Las inversiones mineras se mantienen en un crecimiento sostenido, en 2016 se invirtieron 355 millones de dólares; en 2017, 570 millones de dólares; y en 2018, 800 millones de dólares, para sumar un total de mil 725 millones de dólares invertidos en nuestro estado por sus compañías establecidas aquí", señaló ante los representantes de minas que tienen presencia en el estado.
Fernando Alanís Ortega, presidente de la Cámara Minera de México (Camimex), reconoció el impulso que la gobernadora Pavlovich le ha dado a la industria desde que inició su administración, lo que se traduce en más inversiones.
"Estamos muy contentos de estar en este gran estado, un estado minero cien por ciento, con una gobernadora que desde el día cero entendió perfectamente bien lo que es la minería y que ha estado defendiendo, la ha estado impulsando, y la ha estado promoviendo, y la prueba está en las inversiones que siguen llegando en el estado", indicó.
Sergio Almazán Esqueda, director de Camimex, reconoció el potencial que tiene Sonora en materia de minería, ya que destaca a nivel nacional en la producción de oro, cobre, molibdeno y plata.
"Sonora es el número uno en muchas cosas, en minería, en la participación por estados, es el principal productor de oro, el principal productor de cobre, el principal productor de molibdeno, y pues importante productor de plata y de otros no metálicos", aseveró.
Por su parte, Célida López Cárdenas, presidenta municipal de Hermosillo, agradeció el trabajo que la gobernadora Claudia Pavlovich y su equipo han hecho, impulsando la industria minera en beneficio de los sonorenses.
Presentes: Euridice González, presidenta WIM (Women in Mining); Miguel Ernesto Pompa Corella y Jorge Vidal Ahumada, secretarios de Gobierno y Economía, respectivamente.
End
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 24-10-18
AZMEX UPDATE 24 OCT 2018
Organized crime killed 16,893 people in nine months
BY PATRICIA DÁVILA,
OCTOBER 23, 2018 NATIONAL
https://www.proceso.com.mx/556508/el-crimen-organizado-asesino-a-16-mil-893-personas-en-nueve-meses
MEXICO CITY (APP) .- 79 percent of the murders committed in Mexico between January and September were perpetrated by organized crime, reported Semáforo Delictivo.
The nongovernmental organization announced that, from January to September,
there have been 21 thousand 383 intentional homicides in our country, of which 79 percent -16 thousand 893- were related to organized crime.
Semaphore Crime said that, according to the criminal incidence recorded monthly, it is expected that this year closes with about 28 thousand violent deaths.
The number of homicides is 18% higher than that registered in the same period of 2017.
The founder of the organization, Santiago Roel, said that the regulation of drugs should be one of the main activities to be carried out by the next administration,
so that the number of homicides for drug trafficking would be considerably reduced.
"We are very late with drug regulation and I do not see the new Congress debating the best regulation model of marijuana, poppy and other drugs," he said.
"80% of these homicides are executions for territorial control of the drug market. The only way to solve this strategy is to regulate the market to take away the business from the mafias, "he said.
"We continue to bet on death and poverty instead of betting on life and wealth, as Canada has just done," he stressed at a press conference.
According to this NGO, Guanajuato is again the entity with the highest number of murders, with two thousand and fifty;
followed by Baja California, with one thousand 509,
Guerrero, with one thousand 309;
Veracruz, with 970,
Michoacán, with 946, and
Jalisco with 819.
The results in the third quarter of this year also show an increase in retail drug dealing (32%), executions (26%), homicide (18%), femicide (8%),
family violence (8%), rape (6%) , extortion (2%) and vehicle theft (1%).
There was a decrease in kidnapping crimes (17%), home theft (8%), business theft (5%) and malicious injuries (4%).
While in the crime of drug dealing, the states of Baja California and Coahuila displaced Chihuahua.
And states where in previous years was registered in a minimal way, rose considerably,
placing Guanajuato in fourth place, followed by Colima.
FINISH
The PGR incinerates more than a ton and a half of narcotics in Sonora
Details Published on Tuesday, October 23, 2018,
El diario de Sonora
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119931
Hermosillo, Son
Staff of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), attached to the State Delegation in Sonora, in coordination with elements of the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and the State Public Security Police, destroyed more than a ton and a half of narcotics , in Hermosillo, Sonora.
The incineration event took place at a station in the city of Hermosillo,
928 kilos 280 grams 200 milligrams of marijuana;
679 kilos 413 grams 200 milligrams of methamphetamine;
15 kilos 606 grams 900 milligrams of heroin;
eight kilos 819 grams 200 milligrams of cocaine;
six kilos 979 grams of fentanyl.
A thousand 860 units of 3,4 methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDEA) were also destroyed;
marijuana plants weighing 18 grams 100 milligrams;
38 grams 800 milligrams of marijuana seed.
The incinerated narcotics were related to 33 investigation files and two preliminary investigations for the probable commission of crimes against health, in its different modalities.
The drug was secured in several operations carried out in the state of Sonora by the PGR, SEDENA, State Public Security Police, Federal Police, Secretariat of the Navy Navy of Mexico (SEMAR), State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.
The Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), through its State Delegation in Sonora, ordered the destruction of the drugs, under the supervision of the personnel of the Internal Control Body, which verified the quantity, the weight of the drug and accredited the legality of the incineration.
FINISH
Organized crime killed 16,893 people in nine months
BY PATRICIA DÁVILA,
OCTOBER 23, 2018 NATIONAL
https://www.proceso.com.mx/556508/el-crimen-organizado-asesino-a-16-mil-893-personas-en-nueve-meses
MEXICO CITY (APP) .- 79 percent of the murders committed in Mexico between January and September were perpetrated by organized crime, reported Semáforo Delictivo.
The nongovernmental organization announced that, from January to September,
there have been 21 thousand 383 intentional homicides in our country, of which 79 percent -16 thousand 893- were related to organized crime.
Semaphore Crime said that, according to the criminal incidence recorded monthly, it is expected that this year closes with about 28 thousand violent deaths.
The number of homicides is 18% higher than that registered in the same period of 2017.
The founder of the organization, Santiago Roel, said that the regulation of drugs should be one of the main activities to be carried out by the next administration,
so that the number of homicides for drug trafficking would be considerably reduced.
"We are very late with drug regulation and I do not see the new Congress debating the best regulation model of marijuana, poppy and other drugs," he said.
"80% of these homicides are executions for territorial control of the drug market. The only way to solve this strategy is to regulate the market to take away the business from the mafias, "he said.
"We continue to bet on death and poverty instead of betting on life and wealth, as Canada has just done," he stressed at a press conference.
According to this NGO, Guanajuato is again the entity with the highest number of murders, with two thousand and fifty;
followed by Baja California, with one thousand 509,
Guerrero, with one thousand 309;
Veracruz, with 970,
Michoacán, with 946, and
Jalisco with 819.
The results in the third quarter of this year also show an increase in retail drug dealing (32%), executions (26%), homicide (18%), femicide (8%),
family violence (8%), rape (6%) , extortion (2%) and vehicle theft (1%).
There was a decrease in kidnapping crimes (17%), home theft (8%), business theft (5%) and malicious injuries (4%).
While in the crime of drug dealing, the states of Baja California and Coahuila displaced Chihuahua.
And states where in previous years was registered in a minimal way, rose considerably,
placing Guanajuato in fourth place, followed by Colima.
FINISH
The PGR incinerates more than a ton and a half of narcotics in Sonora
Details Published on Tuesday, October 23, 2018,
El diario de Sonora
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119931
Hermosillo, Son
Staff of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), attached to the State Delegation in Sonora, in coordination with elements of the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and the State Public Security Police, destroyed more than a ton and a half of narcotics , in Hermosillo, Sonora.
The incineration event took place at a station in the city of Hermosillo,
928 kilos 280 grams 200 milligrams of marijuana;
679 kilos 413 grams 200 milligrams of methamphetamine;
15 kilos 606 grams 900 milligrams of heroin;
eight kilos 819 grams 200 milligrams of cocaine;
six kilos 979 grams of fentanyl.
A thousand 860 units of 3,4 methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDEA) were also destroyed;
marijuana plants weighing 18 grams 100 milligrams;
38 grams 800 milligrams of marijuana seed.
The incinerated narcotics were related to 33 investigation files and two preliminary investigations for the probable commission of crimes against health, in its different modalities.
The drug was secured in several operations carried out in the state of Sonora by the PGR, SEDENA, State Public Security Police, Federal Police, Secretariat of the Navy Navy of Mexico (SEMAR), State Investigative Police and Municipal Police.
The Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), through its State Delegation in Sonora, ordered the destruction of the drugs, under the supervision of the personnel of the Internal Control Body, which verified the quantity, the weight of the drug and accredited the legality of the incineration.
FINISH
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
AZMEX I3-2 23-10-18
AZMEX I3-2 23 OCT 2018
Sonora is not prepared to receive a migrant caravan: CPA
Details Published on Monday October 22, 2018,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119876
Hermosillo, Son
The state is not prepared to receive the more than 7,000 people from the migrant caravan, said the State Governor.
Claudia Pavlovich Arellano indicated that before the imminent passage through Sonora it will be necessary to request economic support from the Federal Government to assist with human rights of the undocumented in their journey to reach the United States.
He pointed out that the confrontation with police that was registered in Chiapas should alert the other states of the Republic to establish the strategy of receiving the caravan.
"We have to see what we are going to do because as a state we are not prepared to receive this number of people who come in this caravan but we also know about respect for human rights," he said.
He pointed out that in Sonora there is insufficient federal support for the care of migrants because most of these resources are delivered to the states with the greatest number of people leaving and not to the entities that receive them.
He added that the support for the caravan will not be denied, but that the main issue of security must also be addressed to avoid disturbances.
Given the refusal of entry of migrants announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the Governor said that the cities of the border states should establish strategies to prevent outbreaks of homeless people.
End
Hermosillo will receive the migrant caravan with open arms: Célida López
By: Tanya Vásquez | 10/23/2018 11:14.
https://www.elimparcial.com/Noticias/2018/10/23/1382409-Hermosillo-recibira-a-la-caravana-migrante-con-los-brazos-abiertos-Celida-Lopez.html
RELATED INFORMATION
The reasons why this caravan of migrants is bigger than the previous ones and why it attracts so much attention
Sonora is not prepared to receive a large number of migrants: Governor
Do people from the Middle East travel in the migrant caravan?
Navarrete Prida says that Mexico will not be hostile against migrants
Peña Nieto warns migrants that if they do not make a legal entry to Mexico they will hardly reach the US
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
Hermosillo will receive the migrant caravan with open arms, assured the municipal president. (Mayor)
Célida López Cárdenas said that they are preparing to receive those who pass through Hermosillo on their way to the United States and will seek to offer food and medical attention.
SEE MORE: They think that Sonora is not prepared to receive the Migrant Caravan
"We are in solidary people, in Hermosillo we believe in life, in the family and we are willing to help our neighbor, it is a real tragedy what they are living, the pain that borders them".
"We need to be up to the circumstances, it will be very difficult, I am aware of it, we have to do what is humanly possible to serve them with solidarity and respect," he said.
The president stressed that they will monitor the passage of the caravan and provide a space for them to take shelter, which could be the Hector Espino stadium parking lot.
"We are going to follow the caravan step by step, we know that they do not accept invitations for hostels and prefer to be in public places, we are going to look for a place," he said.
It also analyzes the possibility of sending a trusted person to the South of the Country to investigate the intentions of the members of the caravan, if only they are passing through or have plans to stay in Hermosillo.
SEE MORE: The reasons why this caravan of migrants is bigger than the previous ones and why it attracts so much attention
"As municipal president I say we have to receive them in solidarity. We could be the ones who saw us in the need to flee from a country where we can no longer provide the most necessary food, "he said.
END
Sonora is not prepared to receive a migrant caravan: CPA
Details Published on Monday October 22, 2018,
Written by Ángel Lozano
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119876
Hermosillo, Son
The state is not prepared to receive the more than 7,000 people from the migrant caravan, said the State Governor.
Claudia Pavlovich Arellano indicated that before the imminent passage through Sonora it will be necessary to request economic support from the Federal Government to assist with human rights of the undocumented in their journey to reach the United States.
He pointed out that the confrontation with police that was registered in Chiapas should alert the other states of the Republic to establish the strategy of receiving the caravan.
"We have to see what we are going to do because as a state we are not prepared to receive this number of people who come in this caravan but we also know about respect for human rights," he said.
He pointed out that in Sonora there is insufficient federal support for the care of migrants because most of these resources are delivered to the states with the greatest number of people leaving and not to the entities that receive them.
He added that the support for the caravan will not be denied, but that the main issue of security must also be addressed to avoid disturbances.
Given the refusal of entry of migrants announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the Governor said that the cities of the border states should establish strategies to prevent outbreaks of homeless people.
End
Hermosillo will receive the migrant caravan with open arms: Célida López
By: Tanya Vásquez | 10/23/2018 11:14.
https://www.elimparcial.com/Noticias/2018/10/23/1382409-Hermosillo-recibira-a-la-caravana-migrante-con-los-brazos-abiertos-Celida-Lopez.html
RELATED INFORMATION
The reasons why this caravan of migrants is bigger than the previous ones and why it attracts so much attention
Sonora is not prepared to receive a large number of migrants: Governor
Do people from the Middle East travel in the migrant caravan?
Navarrete Prida says that Mexico will not be hostile against migrants
Peña Nieto warns migrants that if they do not make a legal entry to Mexico they will hardly reach the US
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
Hermosillo will receive the migrant caravan with open arms, assured the municipal president. (Mayor)
Célida López Cárdenas said that they are preparing to receive those who pass through Hermosillo on their way to the United States and will seek to offer food and medical attention.
SEE MORE: They think that Sonora is not prepared to receive the Migrant Caravan
"We are in solidary people, in Hermosillo we believe in life, in the family and we are willing to help our neighbor, it is a real tragedy what they are living, the pain that borders them".
"We need to be up to the circumstances, it will be very difficult, I am aware of it, we have to do what is humanly possible to serve them with solidarity and respect," he said.
The president stressed that they will monitor the passage of the caravan and provide a space for them to take shelter, which could be the Hector Espino stadium parking lot.
"We are going to follow the caravan step by step, we know that they do not accept invitations for hostels and prefer to be in public places, we are going to look for a place," he said.
It also analyzes the possibility of sending a trusted person to the South of the Country to investigate the intentions of the members of the caravan, if only they are passing through or have plans to stay in Hermosillo.
SEE MORE: The reasons why this caravan of migrants is bigger than the previous ones and why it attracts so much attention
"As municipal president I say we have to receive them in solidarity. We could be the ones who saw us in the need to flee from a country where we can no longer provide the most necessary food, "he said.
END
AZMEX I3 22-10-18
AZMEX I3 22 OCT 2018
CBP arrest sex offender running north from border fence
By: Elly Morillo
Posted: Oct 22, 2018 09:07 AM MST
Updated: Oct 22, 2018 09:07 AM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/cbp-arrest-sex-offender-running-north-from-border-fence/817672039
CBP
EL CENTRO, Calif. - Agents at El Centro Sector arrested a convicted sex offender running north from the international border fence Sunday afternoon, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP said a group of three individuals were running north from the international border fence, approximately 20 miles west of the Calexico port of entry when agents approached the group and determined that they were illegally present in the United States.
The group was arrested and transported to the El Centro station for processing.
Record checks revealed that one of the individuals, Eliseo Orozco-Mansilla, a 39-year-old Mexican national, is a convicted sex offender. In 2002 in Spokane, Washington, Orozco-Mansilla was convicted for Child Molestation. He was consequently sentenced to six months in jail and 12 months of supervised release.
CBP said Orozco-Mansilla was previously deported in March of 2002.
"Protecting our nation's borders and keeping our communities safe is often one in the same," said Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez. "Arrests like these send a clear message that we will keep our communities safe and will prosecute criminals who have committed felonies in the United States."
Orozco-Mansilla will face removal proceedings.
End
Tijuana shelters are full as increasing number of asylum-seeking families wait at San Diego border
POSTED 6:55 AM, OCTOBER 22, 2018, BY SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE,
UPDATED AT 07:57AM, OCTOBER 22, 2018
https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/10/22/tijuana-shelters-are-full-as-increasing-number-of-asylum-seeking-families-wait-their-turn-at-san-diego-border/
Thousands Of Migrants Head Toward US Border
SAN DIEGO -- Federal officials are seeing a steep increase in families and unaccompanied minors seeking legal asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, and shelters in Tijuana report they are housing record numbers of migrants waiting their turn.
The number of people who are part of a family unit seeking legal entry into the U.S. through the San Diego ports of entry in fiscal year 2018, through August, was up 139 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The number was 12,340, up from 5,167, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Customs and Border Protection statistics show a 31 percent increase in unaccompanied children during the same period. The majority of unaccompanied children come from Guatemala while the families are overwhelmingly coming from Mexico's interior, the data shows.
Others come from Nigeria, Honduras and Pakistan.
Tijuana's shelters say they are strained from the number of mothers with children trying to enter the U.S. seeking asylum through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, after the U.S. ended a policy of family separations at the border. Thousands are hunkering down in Tijuana shelters or in tents right outside on the streets.
Capt. Isaac Olvera runs the Salvation Army Center for women and children in Colonia Libertad, where he says more than 2,000 people in Tijuana are waiting in limbo, a number he's never seen before.
Read the full article at The San Diego Union-Tribune
END
CBP arrest sex offender running north from border fence
By: Elly Morillo
Posted: Oct 22, 2018 09:07 AM MST
Updated: Oct 22, 2018 09:07 AM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/cbp-arrest-sex-offender-running-north-from-border-fence/817672039
CBP
EL CENTRO, Calif. - Agents at El Centro Sector arrested a convicted sex offender running north from the international border fence Sunday afternoon, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP said a group of three individuals were running north from the international border fence, approximately 20 miles west of the Calexico port of entry when agents approached the group and determined that they were illegally present in the United States.
The group was arrested and transported to the El Centro station for processing.
Record checks revealed that one of the individuals, Eliseo Orozco-Mansilla, a 39-year-old Mexican national, is a convicted sex offender. In 2002 in Spokane, Washington, Orozco-Mansilla was convicted for Child Molestation. He was consequently sentenced to six months in jail and 12 months of supervised release.
CBP said Orozco-Mansilla was previously deported in March of 2002.
"Protecting our nation's borders and keeping our communities safe is often one in the same," said Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez. "Arrests like these send a clear message that we will keep our communities safe and will prosecute criminals who have committed felonies in the United States."
Orozco-Mansilla will face removal proceedings.
End
Tijuana shelters are full as increasing number of asylum-seeking families wait at San Diego border
POSTED 6:55 AM, OCTOBER 22, 2018, BY SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE,
UPDATED AT 07:57AM, OCTOBER 22, 2018
https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/10/22/tijuana-shelters-are-full-as-increasing-number-of-asylum-seeking-families-wait-their-turn-at-san-diego-border/
Thousands Of Migrants Head Toward US Border
SAN DIEGO -- Federal officials are seeing a steep increase in families and unaccompanied minors seeking legal asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, and shelters in Tijuana report they are housing record numbers of migrants waiting their turn.
The number of people who are part of a family unit seeking legal entry into the U.S. through the San Diego ports of entry in fiscal year 2018, through August, was up 139 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The number was 12,340, up from 5,167, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Customs and Border Protection statistics show a 31 percent increase in unaccompanied children during the same period. The majority of unaccompanied children come from Guatemala while the families are overwhelmingly coming from Mexico's interior, the data shows.
Others come from Nigeria, Honduras and Pakistan.
Tijuana's shelters say they are strained from the number of mothers with children trying to enter the U.S. seeking asylum through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, after the U.S. ended a policy of family separations at the border. Thousands are hunkering down in Tijuana shelters or in tents right outside on the streets.
Capt. Isaac Olvera runs the Salvation Army Center for women and children in Colonia Libertad, where he says more than 2,000 people in Tijuana are waiting in limbo, a number he's never seen before.
Read the full article at The San Diego Union-Tribune
END
AZMEX I3 23-10-18
AZMEX I3 23 OCT 2018
Note: local interest mostly. Video, etc. at link.
Thx
Homeland Security buses nearly 100 asylum seekers to Phoenix church
Carissa Planalp
Updated 11 hrs ago | Posted on Oct 22, 2018
https://www.azfamily.com/news/homeland-security-buses-nearly-asylum-seekers-to-phoenix-church/article_4590520e-d672-11e8-9188-df926ad4d84d.html
An east Phoenix church is helping near 100 asylum seekers.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Nearly 100 asylum seekers were dropped off at the Monte Vista Baptist Church in east Phoenix Monday.
According to Pastor Elizabeth Cruz, the federal government called the church a couple weeks ago asking for help because they could not legally hold the families any longer.
Pastor Cruz said 98 adults and children stepped off Department of Homeland Security buses
with paperwork in hand and wearing ID bracelets.
Church volunteers fed the families, provided clean clothes and medication if they were sick.
[RELATED: ICE ending practice of coordinating plans for asylum-seeking families in Arizona]
"Instead of releasing them to the bus station, to the airport, they are releasing them to the churches," said Pastor Cruz.
From there, Cruz said, the families will connect with host families in their journey to reach relatives they can stay with long term.
Once settled in, the migrants are expected to attend their immigration hearings.
ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe confirmed the families were dropped off but she was unable to say how many.
O'Keefe also says not all families released from custody are asylum seekers.
[RELATED: Arizona authorities free migrant families from detention]
"This is a refugee crisis," said Pastor Cruz. "The majority are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras."
Cruz said nearly 600 asylum seekers have been transported to churches across the Valley in recent weeks.
[RELATED: ICE drops off hundreds of asylum seekers at Phoenix-area churches]
Most of them, Cruz said, arrive wearing ankle bracelets for electronic monitoring,
but the group that showed up on Monday was not wearing the devices.
Cruz believes the feds ran out of the ankle bracelets as the government manages an overwhelming number of immigrants.
When asked if families requesting asylum are supposed to be fitted with ankle bracelets,
O'Keefe said in an email it's "case by case."
Pastor Cruz said she doesn't want to get political. She says her church only wants to help where it can.
"Jesus told us as you do unto them you do unto me," said Cruz.
"So we're just being Jesus and let the government be the government and fix whatever they have to fix."
Cruz said the church is always in need of host families as well as monetary donations.
Anyone who wishes to contribute can contact the Monte Vista Baptist Church at 480-274-8975.
End
Note: local interest mostly. Video, etc. at link.
Thx
Homeland Security buses nearly 100 asylum seekers to Phoenix church
Carissa Planalp
Updated 11 hrs ago | Posted on Oct 22, 2018
https://www.azfamily.com/news/homeland-security-buses-nearly-asylum-seekers-to-phoenix-church/article_4590520e-d672-11e8-9188-df926ad4d84d.html
An east Phoenix church is helping near 100 asylum seekers.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Nearly 100 asylum seekers were dropped off at the Monte Vista Baptist Church in east Phoenix Monday.
According to Pastor Elizabeth Cruz, the federal government called the church a couple weeks ago asking for help because they could not legally hold the families any longer.
Pastor Cruz said 98 adults and children stepped off Department of Homeland Security buses
with paperwork in hand and wearing ID bracelets.
Church volunteers fed the families, provided clean clothes and medication if they were sick.
[RELATED: ICE ending practice of coordinating plans for asylum-seeking families in Arizona]
"Instead of releasing them to the bus station, to the airport, they are releasing them to the churches," said Pastor Cruz.
From there, Cruz said, the families will connect with host families in their journey to reach relatives they can stay with long term.
Once settled in, the migrants are expected to attend their immigration hearings.
ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe confirmed the families were dropped off but she was unable to say how many.
O'Keefe also says not all families released from custody are asylum seekers.
[RELATED: Arizona authorities free migrant families from detention]
"This is a refugee crisis," said Pastor Cruz. "The majority are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras."
Cruz said nearly 600 asylum seekers have been transported to churches across the Valley in recent weeks.
[RELATED: ICE drops off hundreds of asylum seekers at Phoenix-area churches]
Most of them, Cruz said, arrive wearing ankle bracelets for electronic monitoring,
but the group that showed up on Monday was not wearing the devices.
Cruz believes the feds ran out of the ankle bracelets as the government manages an overwhelming number of immigrants.
When asked if families requesting asylum are supposed to be fitted with ankle bracelets,
O'Keefe said in an email it's "case by case."
Pastor Cruz said she doesn't want to get political. She says her church only wants to help where it can.
"Jesus told us as you do unto them you do unto me," said Cruz.
"So we're just being Jesus and let the government be the government and fix whatever they have to fix."
Cruz said the church is always in need of host families as well as monetary donations.
Anyone who wishes to contribute can contact the Monte Vista Baptist Church at 480-274-8975.
End
Monday, October 22, 2018
AZMEX I3-2 22-10-18
AZMEX I3-2 22 OCT 2018
Comment; there has been several comments on U.S. networks that Mexico's military and police could not stop the caravans.
The Mexican Army and Federal Police are quite capable, if not given orders to stand aside.
Such orders would come from the top.
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Thx
Peña calls migrants to stick to legality
Rosa Elvira Vargas and Roberto González,
sent | Monday, 22 Oct 2018 15:53
http://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/10/22/llama-pena-a-migrantes-apegarse-a-la-legalidad-8472.html.
Guadalajara, Jal. President Enrique Peña Nieto made a "respectful call" to those who have chosen to keep the caravan of Central American migrants "out of the legal order", so that they are clear that if they stay in this attitude, they will hardly be able to achieve their goal of entering the United States or of permanence in Mexico.
Another way that is not to maintain the attachment to legality will hardly allow the members of this caravan to fulfill this objective, the president immediately established.
When participating in the Business Summit organized by Miguel Alemán Velasco every year, President Peña insisted: the government of the Republic through the Ministry of the Interior is in constant contact with the migrants of this group who have ignored the call to adhere to the legal principles that govern the migratory and population issue of the country, so that they follow the mechanisms of formal request for permanence in Mexico.
Right there, President Peña warned of the risk that runs in the national territory due to the arrival in the national territory of Hurricane Willa.
He said that, in the face of this natural phenomenon that is advancing along the Pacific coast, he has given instructions today for the installation of the National Emergency Committee, so that all the federal authorities and the states where the phenomenon will eventually impact in the next 48 hours take the preventive measures of support and assistance to the population.
He also urged the media to join the Alerting work issued by the Civil Protection authority to safeguard and protect the inhabitants of those places where the category 5 hurricane will eventually impact and whose strength could be enhanced by tropical storm Vicente that also runs in the Pacific.
That meteorological condition - he added - could oblige the authorities to "make a call for even greater alertness to the members of this caravan that can eventually risk their lives" with the impact and strength of Willa and Vicente. "
On the verge of closing his speech, in which he had emphasized the importance of giving certainty to private investment as one of the axis for the development of the country, President Peña said that he would refer to two particularly important issues of conjuncture: the migrant caravan and the threat of the impact of hurricane Willa in Mexico.
Regarding the first, he stated: "Since last Friday, when a caravan integrated by migrants that seeks to reach the United States, the government of Mexico, in strict adherence to their right and in strict adherence to what our Constitution mandates, burst onto our southern border. and the laws on migration, established the mechanisms to seek an orderly migration and attached to the law.
He added that the "abrupt" form in which this entry was presented has led some people of the same to have already addressed the recommendation of the Mexican government to initiate the processes, be it a refugee request or an "organized" migrant condition. and legal. "
It was then when he warned those who have decided to continue the caravan, in what he considers outside the legal channels, that by maintaining this attitude they will hardly be able to achieve their mission of entering the territory of the United States or of remaining in Mexico.
FINISH
Comment; there has been several comments on U.S. networks that Mexico's military and police could not stop the caravans.
The Mexican Army and Federal Police are quite capable, if not given orders to stand aside.
Such orders would come from the top.
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Thx
Peña calls migrants to stick to legality
Rosa Elvira Vargas and Roberto González,
sent | Monday, 22 Oct 2018 15:53
http://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/10/22/llama-pena-a-migrantes-apegarse-a-la-legalidad-8472.html.
Guadalajara, Jal. President Enrique Peña Nieto made a "respectful call" to those who have chosen to keep the caravan of Central American migrants "out of the legal order", so that they are clear that if they stay in this attitude, they will hardly be able to achieve their goal of entering the United States or of permanence in Mexico.
Another way that is not to maintain the attachment to legality will hardly allow the members of this caravan to fulfill this objective, the president immediately established.
When participating in the Business Summit organized by Miguel Alemán Velasco every year, President Peña insisted: the government of the Republic through the Ministry of the Interior is in constant contact with the migrants of this group who have ignored the call to adhere to the legal principles that govern the migratory and population issue of the country, so that they follow the mechanisms of formal request for permanence in Mexico.
Right there, President Peña warned of the risk that runs in the national territory due to the arrival in the national territory of Hurricane Willa.
He said that, in the face of this natural phenomenon that is advancing along the Pacific coast, he has given instructions today for the installation of the National Emergency Committee, so that all the federal authorities and the states where the phenomenon will eventually impact in the next 48 hours take the preventive measures of support and assistance to the population.
He also urged the media to join the Alerting work issued by the Civil Protection authority to safeguard and protect the inhabitants of those places where the category 5 hurricane will eventually impact and whose strength could be enhanced by tropical storm Vicente that also runs in the Pacific.
That meteorological condition - he added - could oblige the authorities to "make a call for even greater alertness to the members of this caravan that can eventually risk their lives" with the impact and strength of Willa and Vicente. "
On the verge of closing his speech, in which he had emphasized the importance of giving certainty to private investment as one of the axis for the development of the country, President Peña said that he would refer to two particularly important issues of conjuncture: the migrant caravan and the threat of the impact of hurricane Willa in Mexico.
Regarding the first, he stated: "Since last Friday, when a caravan integrated by migrants that seeks to reach the United States, the government of Mexico, in strict adherence to their right and in strict adherence to what our Constitution mandates, burst onto our southern border. and the laws on migration, established the mechanisms to seek an orderly migration and attached to the law.
He added that the "abrupt" form in which this entry was presented has led some people of the same to have already addressed the recommendation of the Mexican government to initiate the processes, be it a refugee request or an "organized" migrant condition. and legal. "
It was then when he warned those who have decided to continue the caravan, in what he considers outside the legal channels, that by maintaining this attitude they will hardly be able to achieve their mission of entering the territory of the United States or of remaining in Mexico.
FINISH
AZMEX I3-2 19-10-18
AZMEX I3-2 19 OCT 2018
Yuma Sector continues to see record number of immigrants surrendering
By: Elly Morillo
Posted: Oct 19, 2018 01:42 PM MST
Updated: Oct 19, 2018 03:15 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/yuma-sector-continues-to-see-record-number-of-immigrants-surrendering/812112424
CBP
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents captured a total of 108 immigrants on video and arrested a total of 220 immigrants on Thursday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP said at approximately 3:30 a.m. a large number of immigrants were dropped over the border wall east of the San Luis port of entry.
This was part of a coordinated smuggling effort where the subjects were dropped off the legacy landing mat border wall in four places simultaneously.
The facilitators never crossed with the groups and returned to Mexico and out of the 108 individuals, 100 were from Guatemala and the rest were Honduran nationals.
Throughout the day agents arrested an additional 112 immigrants, a majority being from Guatemala, and were later processed for immigration proceeding.
"Coordinated smuggling of large numbers of Central Americans is taking place daily here in Yuma Sector," said Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony Porvaznik.
"They show flagrant disregard for the laws of our country and are exploiting our need for improved border wall infrastructure."
END
Arrival of migrants would generate problems: Loureiro
Details Published on Thursday October 18, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119763
Nogales, Son
If hundreds of more Central American migrants arrive to the Nogales border to live and work if they can not cross to the United States, said Juan Francisco Loureiro Herrera it could present a social problem for Nogales.
The Director of the San Juan Bosco Migrant Shelter, an institution of private assistance, assured that the possible arrival of a caravan of migrants to the north of the country, for them there is the possibility of attending them, but perhaps not for the city.
"Regarding us as a shelter if we are prepared to serve the people we reach to receive them, we have a quota for 300 people with a humanitarian service and we are supporting people in situations of vulnerability on our border, avoiding social problems" , He said.
He added that before the arrival of migrants to the border and without money, when they can not cross or that they are deported or repatriated, it can become a social problem, since they are attracted to Nogales by the offer of jobs that the maquiladora industry has.
"The problem would be if you find work in the maquila, but there is the question of housing, the lack of basic services such as drinking water, garbage collection and many things that make us expect a social problem, the city is not prepared to receive as many people as the announced one that will arrive, if they arrive here ", indicated.
Loureiro Herrera said that migrants assisted in their shelter, receive food, bed, medical care and basic medicines, as well as used clothing and footwear, but in good condition, a facility already prepared for a considerable increase in migrants in the near future.
He reported that currently deportations and repatriations have increased by up to 85 percent in recent weeks.
End
Yuma Sector continues to see record number of immigrants surrendering
By: Elly Morillo
Posted: Oct 19, 2018 01:42 PM MST
Updated: Oct 19, 2018 03:15 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/yuma-sector-continues-to-see-record-number-of-immigrants-surrendering/812112424
CBP
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents captured a total of 108 immigrants on video and arrested a total of 220 immigrants on Thursday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP said at approximately 3:30 a.m. a large number of immigrants were dropped over the border wall east of the San Luis port of entry.
This was part of a coordinated smuggling effort where the subjects were dropped off the legacy landing mat border wall in four places simultaneously.
The facilitators never crossed with the groups and returned to Mexico and out of the 108 individuals, 100 were from Guatemala and the rest were Honduran nationals.
Throughout the day agents arrested an additional 112 immigrants, a majority being from Guatemala, and were later processed for immigration proceeding.
"Coordinated smuggling of large numbers of Central Americans is taking place daily here in Yuma Sector," said Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony Porvaznik.
"They show flagrant disregard for the laws of our country and are exploiting our need for improved border wall infrastructure."
END
Arrival of migrants would generate problems: Loureiro
Details Published on Thursday October 18, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=119763
Nogales, Son
If hundreds of more Central American migrants arrive to the Nogales border to live and work if they can not cross to the United States, said Juan Francisco Loureiro Herrera it could present a social problem for Nogales.
The Director of the San Juan Bosco Migrant Shelter, an institution of private assistance, assured that the possible arrival of a caravan of migrants to the north of the country, for them there is the possibility of attending them, but perhaps not for the city.
"Regarding us as a shelter if we are prepared to serve the people we reach to receive them, we have a quota for 300 people with a humanitarian service and we are supporting people in situations of vulnerability on our border, avoiding social problems" , He said.
He added that before the arrival of migrants to the border and without money, when they can not cross or that they are deported or repatriated, it can become a social problem, since they are attracted to Nogales by the offer of jobs that the maquiladora industry has.
"The problem would be if you find work in the maquila, but there is the question of housing, the lack of basic services such as drinking water, garbage collection and many things that make us expect a social problem, the city is not prepared to receive as many people as the announced one that will arrive, if they arrive here ", indicated.
Loureiro Herrera said that migrants assisted in their shelter, receive food, bed, medical care and basic medicines, as well as used clothing and footwear, but in good condition, a facility already prepared for a considerable increase in migrants in the near future.
He reported that currently deportations and repatriations have increased by up to 85 percent in recent weeks.
End
Saturday, October 20, 2018
AZMEX I3 20-10-18
AZMEX I3 20 OCT 2018
Note: "irregularly" mean illegally.
Gracias
October 20, 2018
Mexico will not allow irregular and violent entry of migrants: Peña
The president stressed that the Segob and the SRE have the indication to maintain the dialogue with the caravan of migrants
10/20/2018 05:48 NOTIMEX
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/mexico-no-permitira-ingreso-irregular-y-violento-de-migrantes-pena/1272877
President Enrique Peña Nieto stressed that like any sovereign country, Mexico does not allow, nor will it allow entry to its territory in an irregular manner - Photo: @PresidenciaMX
MEXICO CITY.
President Enrique Peña Nieto warned that Mexico does not allow or allow entry into its territory in an irregular manner, much less in a violent manner.
Through a message on social networks, he said that "violent entry into the country not only threatens our sovereignty, it also puts the migrants themselves, especially children, women and older adults at risk."
When referring to the facts registered this Friday in the southern border of the country, when a contingent of migrants tried to enter irregularly, he condemned that elements of the Federal Police had been injured, who strictly observed the human rights protocol were unarmed. .
He stressed that based on the legal framework, the federal security elements contained this contingent and restored the conditions of order.
He explained that the members of that caravan, who travel from the south of the continent, may request entry through the channels established by Mexican law and international law.
He added that the Secretariats of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are mandated to maintain dialogue with the caravan in order to guarantee security conditions and orderly migration, respectful of the legal framework and human rights.
Those agencies, he added, reported that anyone wishing to enter the national territory could do so provided they had travel documents and a visa granted by Mexico.
In addition, it was reported that any person wishing to enter the country may individually request recognition as a refugee, for which the support of the United Nations (UN) was formally requested.
In these terms, the ordered entry of dozens of people who were assisted by immigration personnel began; However, this "unprecedented situation" was presented at the border crossing located between Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, and Tecún Umán, Guatemala, where the contingent wanted to enter irregularly.
End
Don't Forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Note: "irregularly" mean illegally.
Gracias
October 20, 2018
Mexico will not allow irregular and violent entry of migrants: Peña
The president stressed that the Segob and the SRE have the indication to maintain the dialogue with the caravan of migrants
10/20/2018 05:48 NOTIMEX
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/mexico-no-permitira-ingreso-irregular-y-violento-de-migrantes-pena/1272877
President Enrique Peña Nieto stressed that like any sovereign country, Mexico does not allow, nor will it allow entry to its territory in an irregular manner - Photo: @PresidenciaMX
MEXICO CITY.
President Enrique Peña Nieto warned that Mexico does not allow or allow entry into its territory in an irregular manner, much less in a violent manner.
Through a message on social networks, he said that "violent entry into the country not only threatens our sovereignty, it also puts the migrants themselves, especially children, women and older adults at risk."
When referring to the facts registered this Friday in the southern border of the country, when a contingent of migrants tried to enter irregularly, he condemned that elements of the Federal Police had been injured, who strictly observed the human rights protocol were unarmed. .
He stressed that based on the legal framework, the federal security elements contained this contingent and restored the conditions of order.
He explained that the members of that caravan, who travel from the south of the continent, may request entry through the channels established by Mexican law and international law.
He added that the Secretariats of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are mandated to maintain dialogue with the caravan in order to guarantee security conditions and orderly migration, respectful of the legal framework and human rights.
Those agencies, he added, reported that anyone wishing to enter the national territory could do so provided they had travel documents and a visa granted by Mexico.
In addition, it was reported that any person wishing to enter the country may individually request recognition as a refugee, for which the support of the United Nations (UN) was formally requested.
In these terms, the ordered entry of dozens of people who were assisted by immigration personnel began; However, this "unprecedented situation" was presented at the border crossing located between Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, and Tecún Umán, Guatemala, where the contingent wanted to enter irregularly.
End
Don't Forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Friday, October 19, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 19-10-18
AZMEX UPDATE 19 OCT 2018
Woman arrested after 1 million lethal doses of fentanyl found in suitcase
• By Chuck Morris, WSMV
• Posted 6 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/woman-arrested-after-million-lethal-doses-of-fentanyl-found-in/article_e34a8900-4bae-5776-9195-7d2135241561.html
Reem Ibrahim, 22, of Phoenix, was arrested on charges of possessing cocaine and marijuana for resale.
The cocaine charge will be amended to reflect the substance was fentanyl.
• Metro Nashville Police Department
(WSMV) – Nearly 5 pounds of what was thought to be cocaine concealed in a suitcase flown into Nashville International Airport
has been determined to be the conservative equivalent of 1 million lethal doses of fentanyl.
Law enforcement was alerted by DEA agents in Phoenix that luggage checked by airline passenger Reem Ibrahim
was found by the TSA to contain a large bundle that appeared to be marijuana along with 2 kilogram-sized packages wrapped in plastic.
When Ibrahim arrived in Nashville and claimed two checked suitcases, she was stopped by law enforcement and allowed a search of her baggage.
One suitcase contained approximately 25 pounds of marijuana and the 2 kilogram-sized packages, which initially field-tested positive for cocaine.
The other suitcase contained an additional 25 pounds of marijuana.
Ibrahim, 22, of Phoenix, claimed that she had been promised $1,000 to deliver the luggage to Nashville.
She said she did not know illegal substances were inside.
Ibrahim was arrested on charges of possessing cocaine and marijuana for resale.
The cocaine charge will not be amended to reflect that fentanyl was the actual substance being transported. (???)
end
Woman arrested after 1 million lethal doses of fentanyl found in suitcase
• By Chuck Morris, WSMV
• Posted 6 hrs ago
https://www.azfamily.com/woman-arrested-after-million-lethal-doses-of-fentanyl-found-in/article_e34a8900-4bae-5776-9195-7d2135241561.html
Reem Ibrahim, 22, of Phoenix, was arrested on charges of possessing cocaine and marijuana for resale.
The cocaine charge will be amended to reflect the substance was fentanyl.
• Metro Nashville Police Department
(WSMV) – Nearly 5 pounds of what was thought to be cocaine concealed in a suitcase flown into Nashville International Airport
has been determined to be the conservative equivalent of 1 million lethal doses of fentanyl.
Law enforcement was alerted by DEA agents in Phoenix that luggage checked by airline passenger Reem Ibrahim
was found by the TSA to contain a large bundle that appeared to be marijuana along with 2 kilogram-sized packages wrapped in plastic.
When Ibrahim arrived in Nashville and claimed two checked suitcases, she was stopped by law enforcement and allowed a search of her baggage.
One suitcase contained approximately 25 pounds of marijuana and the 2 kilogram-sized packages, which initially field-tested positive for cocaine.
The other suitcase contained an additional 25 pounds of marijuana.
Ibrahim, 22, of Phoenix, claimed that she had been promised $1,000 to deliver the luggage to Nashville.
She said she did not know illegal substances were inside.
Ibrahim was arrested on charges of possessing cocaine and marijuana for resale.
The cocaine charge will not be amended to reflect that fentanyl was the actual substance being transported. (???)
end
AZMEX I3 19-10-18
AZMEX I3 19 OCT 2018
Mexican Government Seeking Help From UN To Process Arrival Of Honduran Migrants
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:20 AM PT — Fri. Oct. 19, 2018
https://www.oann.com/mexican-government-seeking-help-from-un-to-process-arrival-of-honduran-migrants/
Mexico is seeking international aid as the country prepares for the arrival of thousands of migrants.
On Thursday, Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray called on the United Nations to assist in processing roughly 3,000 Honduran migrants
currently heading to the country from Guatemala.
To alleviate the crisis the Mexican government will not allow the migrants to enter the country in a group.
Instead, each person would need to apply for refugee status individually or show a valid passport and visa.
"For that reason we are soliciting the help and support of the United Nations, so that the determination of the requests for refuge
will be done in transparency and with the support of the international community," stated Videgaray.
Hundreds of Honduran migrants stand at the shore of the Suchiate river on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala,
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Mexico's foreign ministry says government officials at its southern border with Guatemala
have started assisting the early arrivals from a caravan of some 3,000 Honduran migrants that has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo)
The Mexican government is also requesting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees establish a series of shelters across the country's southern border
with added help in reviewing legitimate claims for asylum.
The foreign minister went on to say the country will do everything in its power to respect human rights,
but would not hesitate to turn away or deport any individuals who arrive without appropriate papers.
"I would like to highlight that for the Mexican government it is essential, in the first place, to respect and protect the human rights
and the fundamental dignity of all of the migrants, and to do it under the logic of respectful, humanitarian treatment," said Foreign Minister Videgaray.
Meanwhile, Mexico Ambassador to the U.S. Geronimo Gutierrez said if a migrant manages to travel through Mexico
and then illegally crosses into America, Mexico will allow those individuals to be sent back.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has welcomed the country's plan and assures the White House will assist in the efforts.
Pompeo is now expected to travel to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto,
where the two will reportedly discuss potential solutions to the migrant crisis, narcotics and terrorism.
End
Caravan migrants must do individual processing if they want to enter Mexico: SRE
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luis Videgaray, said that migrants can enter the country with their visa and passport or through a procedure to request refuge
10/19/2018 08:41 AM REUTERS
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/migrantes-de-caravana-deben-hacer-tramite-individual-si-quieren-entrar-a-mexico-sre/1272731
Caravan migrants must do individual processing if they want to enter Mexico: SRE
More than 4 thousand Honduran migrants go to the United States in search of a better life. Photo: Reuters
MEXICO CITY
The thousands of Central American migrants who are heading to Mexico in a caravan will have to do individual procedures if they decide to enter Mexican territory,
said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Luis Videgaray.
He added that there are about 4 thousand Honduran migrants gathered at the border of Mexico with Guatemala who have been informed of their options to enter the country,
either with their visa and passport or through a procedure to request refuge, for which they requested support logistics and processing to the United Nations (UN).
Several thousand Hondurans have left their country on Saturday, fleeing poverty and violence, with the idea of reaching Mexico or the United States.
THE MIGRANT ACTIVIST IRINEO MUJICA DETAINED IN CHIAPAS
Irineo Mujica Arzete, representative of the Peoples Without Borders organization, was detained by elements of the National Institute of Migration (INM) and the Federal Police,
for alleged crimes of resistance of individuals, injuries and damage to property of others; the arrest occurred in the central park of the municipality of Suchiate, Chiapas.
According to the INM, when requesting his identification after carrying out the grouping of foreigners to initiate various mobilizations,
he attacked elements of this Institute, municipal police and federal police.
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported that it is pending that the activist's fundamental rights are respected,
"since he was arrested for allegedly damaging federal property, apparently an official vehicle."
Therefore, it was initially presented to the MP of Ciudad Hidalgo and then transferred to the Delegation of the PGR in Tapachula, he explained.
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Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
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Mexican Government Seeking Help From UN To Process Arrival Of Honduran Migrants
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:20 AM PT — Fri. Oct. 19, 2018
https://www.oann.com/mexican-government-seeking-help-from-un-to-process-arrival-of-honduran-migrants/
Mexico is seeking international aid as the country prepares for the arrival of thousands of migrants.
On Thursday, Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray called on the United Nations to assist in processing roughly 3,000 Honduran migrants
currently heading to the country from Guatemala.
To alleviate the crisis the Mexican government will not allow the migrants to enter the country in a group.
Instead, each person would need to apply for refugee status individually or show a valid passport and visa.
"For that reason we are soliciting the help and support of the United Nations, so that the determination of the requests for refuge
will be done in transparency and with the support of the international community," stated Videgaray.
Hundreds of Honduran migrants stand at the shore of the Suchiate river on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala,
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Mexico's foreign ministry says government officials at its southern border with Guatemala
have started assisting the early arrivals from a caravan of some 3,000 Honduran migrants that has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo)
The Mexican government is also requesting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees establish a series of shelters across the country's southern border
with added help in reviewing legitimate claims for asylum.
The foreign minister went on to say the country will do everything in its power to respect human rights,
but would not hesitate to turn away or deport any individuals who arrive without appropriate papers.
"I would like to highlight that for the Mexican government it is essential, in the first place, to respect and protect the human rights
and the fundamental dignity of all of the migrants, and to do it under the logic of respectful, humanitarian treatment," said Foreign Minister Videgaray.
Meanwhile, Mexico Ambassador to the U.S. Geronimo Gutierrez said if a migrant manages to travel through Mexico
and then illegally crosses into America, Mexico will allow those individuals to be sent back.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has welcomed the country's plan and assures the White House will assist in the efforts.
Pompeo is now expected to travel to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto,
where the two will reportedly discuss potential solutions to the migrant crisis, narcotics and terrorism.
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Caravan migrants must do individual processing if they want to enter Mexico: SRE
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luis Videgaray, said that migrants can enter the country with their visa and passport or through a procedure to request refuge
10/19/2018 08:41 AM REUTERS
https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/migrantes-de-caravana-deben-hacer-tramite-individual-si-quieren-entrar-a-mexico-sre/1272731
Caravan migrants must do individual processing if they want to enter Mexico: SRE
More than 4 thousand Honduran migrants go to the United States in search of a better life. Photo: Reuters
MEXICO CITY
The thousands of Central American migrants who are heading to Mexico in a caravan will have to do individual procedures if they decide to enter Mexican territory,
said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Luis Videgaray.
He added that there are about 4 thousand Honduran migrants gathered at the border of Mexico with Guatemala who have been informed of their options to enter the country,
either with their visa and passport or through a procedure to request refuge, for which they requested support logistics and processing to the United Nations (UN).
Several thousand Hondurans have left their country on Saturday, fleeing poverty and violence, with the idea of reaching Mexico or the United States.
THE MIGRANT ACTIVIST IRINEO MUJICA DETAINED IN CHIAPAS
Irineo Mujica Arzete, representative of the Peoples Without Borders organization, was detained by elements of the National Institute of Migration (INM) and the Federal Police,
for alleged crimes of resistance of individuals, injuries and damage to property of others; the arrest occurred in the central park of the municipality of Suchiate, Chiapas.
According to the INM, when requesting his identification after carrying out the grouping of foreigners to initiate various mobilizations,
he attacked elements of this Institute, municipal police and federal police.
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported that it is pending that the activist's fundamental rights are respected,
"since he was arrested for allegedly damaging federal property, apparently an official vehicle."
Therefore, it was initially presented to the MP of Ciudad Hidalgo and then transferred to the Delegation of the PGR in Tapachula, he explained.
END
Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
end
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